Was this the first baseball postcard?

[aquarius31]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Steve,

Also, small dimension woodcuts with player portraits often appeared as illustrations in some sporting newspapers. Here’s a cut out pasted onto a scrapbook cover I remembered from Hunt (top right pic).

If you have small dimension examples other than this one, I'd like to see it as they're not common at all and rare if it depicts an entire team. The one you posted looks more like it came from a sports guide and not a newspaper. The original item in question is a woodcut and it's either from a newspaper, part of a larger item that was cut out or came in that original format. I guess we can't state definitely any option unless someone does find an 1893 newspaper with this exact woodcut. It's a neat item regardless.