Interestingly, the credit for inventing cigarettes goes to an Egyptian artilleryman (name not known). During the siege of Acre in 1832, the Egyptian...
It was Cartwright who decided that the bases should be set at 90 feet apart and that they should be in a diamond formation. He also decided that the...
Strangely, baseball did not enjoy the same popularity internationally as basketball or American football, but it generated sufficient interest withi...
By the 1890’s Duke struck upon another ingenious idea. Faced with ever-growing competition, he suggested that all cigarette manufacturers merge into...
In the period before and just after the American Civil War, baseball became an increasingly popular sport in the United States. The first baseball c...
These scans of authentic original cards are invaluable collectors items, as they represent a portion of the cards that have survived the passage of ...
Although these are vintage baseball posters - sponsored by Old Judge Cigarettes - you can clearly see the fire in the eyes of baseball's early legen...