Buck O'Brien biography card back, Recruit Little Cigars – Historic Print
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This rare historic image captures Buck O'Brien biography card back, Recruit Little Cigars in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Buck O'Brien biography card back, Recruit Little Cigars
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This card back carries the biography of Buck O'Brien, a right-handed pitcher who worked for the Boston Red Sox in the early 1910s, when the team was building the roster that would win the 1912 World Series. The printed text on the reverse is what sets this card apart from the front, which shows the player's portrait. Tobacco companies such as the maker of Recruit Little Cigars packed cards like this into their products to encourage repeat purchases and to give smokers a collectible tied to the sport. Turn the card over and you can see how these early issues served as both advertising and a brief record of the player's career, a useful glimpse of how baseball was marketed before modern trading cards.
| Original scan | 1,655 × 3,000 px · prints to 6 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3b |
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