Oldest black baseball player card?

[Stetson_1883]

Mainstream card?

Just curious.

[triwak]

There are plenty of earlier items - particularly team postcards - featuring Negro League players, but here's a few "mainstream" cards from my HOF collection, of Cuban tobacco cards from the early 1920s:

[canjond]

1910 Punch?

[Kenny Cole]

Cabanas are a year earlier than Punch. They have Hill and Petway. That is the first true "set" of baseball cards from Cuba that I am aware of.

[triwak]

Oh heck yes!! Totally forgot about Cabanas and Punch. Perhaps, because I don't own any, lol!

[clydepepper]

Speaking of Cuban (and Venezuelan) cards, I have always shied away from them because I was concerned with the card stock.

However, since I have never even seen one in person, let alone own one, I'm still not positive that is an issue.

Could any one give me the skinny on that?



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[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Jimmy Claxton 1916?

Not mine

[Stetson_1883]

Ohhh I want that card!

Wanna sell?

Wikipedia says his dad was black and mom was white.

[DixieBaseball]

1910 - T211 Memphis - Davis ( I don't own this card anymore) - I have always had my suspicions on this player...

[aljurgela]

I will be posting a YouTube video on this set soon as well...

[aljurgela]

Originally Posted by aljurgela

I will be posting a YouTube video on this set soon as well...

I now have an entire YouTube video posted on the Punch cards in general if you want some more information on this set.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Obviously, not a card, but this original 1884 Bellaire Globes team photo pictures Sol White (back row, far right) and represents the earliest appearance of a Negro League Hall of Famer on any type of collectible. BTW this 1-of-a-kind photo is available in the current Hake's Auction.

[Butch7999]

Is there -- and if there is, can anyone show -- any 19th-century card or postcard featuring Frank Grant?
We have digital images of the 1887 Buffalo team photo that includes Grant, and of one or two steel engravings
from 19th-century newspapers, but a card or postcard would be something we'd greatly appreciate seeing.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Frank Grant does appear on an 1887 Buffalo team cabinet card, unfortunately, the only one that I know of was part of the infamous theft from the Baseball HOF Library in Cooperstown. If that one ever came to market, I think it might be seized by the FBI.

Grant also does appear on one newspaper woodcut that I know of, its an issue from the Cleveland Gazette from 1889 picturing Grant on the Cuban Giants.

RPPC's did not exist before 1900 so a 19th Century postcard is an impossibility. I don't know of any other 19th Century Grant photos that exist but it's possible, he played on some good Cuban Giants teams during the 1890's so something could be out there.....

[h2oya311]

[oldjudge]

Moses Fleetwood Walker--The last black major league player before Jackie Robinson. Walker is pictured in this 1888 Syracuse Stars cabinet standing at extreme left. Also pictured is another black player, Robert Higgins.