What's your oldest baseball related item?

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Posted By: Anonymous

A newbie here. Glad to find this site. I recently acquired a Harper's Weekly wood (according to the dealer, but I believe metal plate) engraving published on October 15, 1859 in a 16" x 23" format depicting in the top half a panoramic engraving 6" x 20" labeled "The Cricket Match Played at Hoboken on October 3-6, 1859, Between the All England Eleven and the United States Twenty-Two". Below that, is an identical sized engraving labeled "A Base-Ball Match at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken". The entire playing field for each game is displayed with large crowds and carriages collected around the edge of the fields. The article on the back of the image explains how to play cricket. The baseball umpire is seated in a chair about 10 feet behind the catcher who is 15 feet behind the batter.

If anybody wants me to, I can reduce it a bit and then scan it.

Anybody know a good site to collect vintage autographs of Highlanders and pre-DiMaggio Yankees?