Four 1880's baseball players shared the limelight with a water queen and forty-five other 'champs' representing a wide variety of early sports. In 1888 tobacconist William Kimball inserted a free N184 collector's card into each packet of Little Jockey and High Grade cigarettes that he sold. It wasn't necessary to stiffen a "slide and shell" packet, such as the Little Jockey example pictured below. This style of container was made from a light weight cardboard, and the cigarette cards were inserted solely to promote sales.

The N184 baseball card pictured above is from the Library of Congress collection. Early cigarette manufacturers advertised their different sets of insert cards with beautiful banners that pictured the colorful cards. The N186 Dancing Women set of 50 cards was another series issued with High Grade Cigarettes, and advertised with a banner. About 1896 the Little Jockey Cigarette was advertised with a series of celluloid buttons that pictured celebrated jockeys.