In 1887 Charles Gross & Company produced one of the most iconic baseball card sets up the era the N690-1 Kalamazoo Bats issue. These cards are larger than most tobacco cards and mirror the size of tradition Carte de Vistas 2-1/2 x 4 inches. Gross inserted a single card in each “Kalamazoo Bats 4 for 10 cent” package and labeled the cigars “the best cigar in the world…for the money.” While most 19th-century baseball cards are relatively scarce cards from the N690 Kalamazoo Bats set are truly rare. To date we do not know of any collector who has completed the set and most collectors are fortunate to own a single type of their collection. This particular example features Sid Farrar and has been graded “authentic” by SGC due to the Kalamazoo Bats advertisement being trimmed from the bottom portion of the card. Beyond the trim this example does have some creasing writing on its reverse and some major corner wear. Despite this wear this card exhibits strong image quality and remains a very difficult-to-find type card.