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Posted By: Kevin O

Mark Rucker's "Base Ball Cartes" shows Pike in two Troy Haymaker team cdvs from 1871. The images are numbered 41 and 45. There is a very good chance that an individual carte from the same year exists/existed for Pike, as individual cdvs of other players from that year's squad have surfaced (e.g. Bill Craver and Steve King). One of the 1871 Troy Photographic scorecards--featuring individual players on the cover--recently sold in the Robert Edward Auction (Michael McGeary). Pike may very well have been on the cover of one of these, but I've never seen one. If images of Pike do exist in these forms, you should pray to find them first, as I imagine a cdv or photographic scorecard of Pike would go through the roof in a well-advertised auction. I have two scorecards from 1879 with pre-printed lineups that include Pike (one of Albany vs the Holyokes when Pike played for the Holyokes, the other (three weeks later) with Albany vs Providence when Pike had jumped to the Albany team. I've been offered ridiculous amounts for each, but I'd never part with either.