• Card series: Pioneer Portraits I: 1850-1874
• City: South Bronx
• Team: Union of Morrisania
• League: National Association (NABBP)

David Solomon Birdsall (1838-1896) was an outfielder with the Boston Red Stockings of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players over 3 seasons: 1871-73. Previously, he had played for 4 teams in the National Association of Base Ball Players in the amateur era, beginning with the Metropolitans of NY club in 1858.

• Part of the 1872 championship team with Al Spalding under player-mgr Harry Wright
• Per Sporting Life, August 22, 1891: Birdsall “engaged in laying the foundation of Boston’s greatness as a base ball centre.”
• Birdsall’s image appears on what may be the 1st true baseball card, “The Old Man” per REA research