Possibly the oldest known baseball tickets discovered

[packs]

Similar to the Hop invitation here's an invitation I have to the Una Base Ball Club's calico party in February of 1868. I'm guessing it was some kind of fundraiser maybe:

[Leon]

[GDoggy]

The 1895 Cleveland Spiders include HOF'ers: Jesse Burkett, Bobby Wallace and a 28 year-old Cy Young.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by GDoggy

The 1895 Cleveland Spiders include HOF'ers: Jesse Burkett, Bobby Wallace and a 28 year-old Cy Young.

Good one, Jeff! Very cool

[jcmtiger]

Here’s mine.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by jcmtiger

Here’s mine.

Joe,
Great Wolverine's ticket! I haven't seen one of those before.

[GDoggy]

Not a 19th century ticket, but 115 years old
Looks to be this game played at Bennett Park: https://www.baseball-reference.com/b...90607310.shtml
What is crazy is none of the A's HoF players from that year played (Chief Bender, Eddie Collins (who would debut later that year), Eddie Plank, Rube Waddell ), nor did second year Detroit player Ty Cobb (who according to the Aug 11, 1906 Sporting Life was out on leave due to illness and an operation at a local hosptal).
Only HoF player to play in the game was Sam Crawford who went 0 for 4, but had a RBI