1888 WG1 CARD GAME THOMAS BROWN CSG 1 POOR.
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Item Description
2.5x3.5". The 1888 WG1 Baseball Playing Cards set has 72 total cards in the set. It is the oldest catalogued gaming card designated as a WG set in the American Card Catalog.

Thomas Tarlton Brown was an Anglo-American center fielder in Major League Baseball. Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, son of William Henry Tarlton Brown and Mary Nixon Lewis, he played for 17 seasons, a career in which he batted .265 while scoring 1,524 runs with 1,958 hits. Upon his retirement he served as an umpire, working mostly in the National League in 1898 and 1901-1902. Brown led the NL in stolen bases in 1893.
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