Beautiful two-page woodcut from the November 4 1865 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper featuring players from the New York Teams. Creighton hit a home run in an 1862 game and suffered a ruptured abdominal hernia in the process dying four days later. Very few pieces from the era feature Creighton who many believe to be the first professional baseball player was one of the greatest and most popular players of his era. Depicted here in a silhouette at the top of the illustration all but one of the players on the woodcut (including Mort Rogers producer of a set of scorecards that a recent edition of a popular antiques-related television program appraised at an astronomical price) with one exception believed by most to be Henry Chadwick. The paper appears in EX+ condition with the exception of a small and barely perceptible tear in the Creighton image this is considered to be one of the most important 19th Century baseball woodcuts.