N28 SPORTS CARDS
1887

The Allen & Ginter tobacco company issued a set of 50 sports cards in 1887 titled The World's Champions, Series One. This N28 set included ten baseball players, plus oarsmen, wrestlers, pugilists, rifle shooting, billiard players, and pool players. Besides the hard to find baseball cards, Miss Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill Cody are favorites among cigarette card collectors. These wonderful cards were inserted into Richmond Straight Cut slide-in-shell packets of ten cigarettes.
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I'm indebted to Jon Canfield of New York for sharing the extraordinary Joseph Mulvey baseball card from his collection. I also want to thank Henry Moses of Florida for sharing his Buffalo Bill insert card.


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