One of the more difficult multi-player cards in the N172 issue and a high-grade example at that. 1889 card depicts "Honest John" Kelly who up until 1886 was an umpire but who in 1887 became the manager of the Louisville Colonels. He is pictured with James Powell then-manager of the Western Association's Sioux City Cornhuskers. For some time Kelly held the record for most career games as an umpire and eventually went on to become a boxing referee and owner of gambling establishments. With 23 different dual-player cards issued in the N172 set building the complete subset is a popular goal among advanced collectors and this is one of the more difficult. Very few examples of the card have been graded (No more than six by SGC and likely fewer and just one by PSA) and this is the finest. The quality of the image here is tremendous depicting Powell in his batting stance awaiting a pitch (the ball hovering in mid-air in the image frame) with Kelly looking on ready to call the pitch. An extremely scarce and highly prized card.