I don’t often purchase non-baseball cards, but when I do, it’s gotta be a bad$ss vintage Jack Johnson card. Love this guy…

Here is Louisiana-native Ennis Telfair 'Rebel' Oakes, subject of one of the deadball era's most beautiful cards. Reportedly, Rebel once boasted (with humor): “Cobb would be pretty fair, if he could field as well as I do”...

In 1952 Topps began to dominate the bubble gum war, but the year before they released several cool sets, including this one, which features the greatest SS of all-time…

This 1916 D381 Fleischmann set is pretty tough to collect (they’re quite rare), but it contains some fantastic photography, as evidenced by the Captain of the 1919 Worlds Champion Reds here - Heinie Groh. I would give my left thumb for the Grover Alexander card from this set…

Cuban pioneer Armando Marsans debuted for my Reds on July 4th, 1911. He was inducted into the Cuban Beisbol Hall of Fame in 1939, as part of the initial class.

The 1914 E224 ‘Texas Tommy’ set was issued with a candy bar by the Cardinet Candy Co. in Oakland. There are only about 70 graded examples from this 64-card set in collections today.