• Card series: Pioneer Portraits II: 1875-1899
• City: Indianapolis
• Team: Hoosiers (NL)
• League: National League

John Emmett Seery (1861-1930) played the outfield for and with some of the game’s most colorful characters in the early era of baseball. He debuted with the Baltimore Monumentals in 1884. Seery led his Union League team in batting with a .311 BA. Played under John Montgomery Ward (Ward’s Wonders of Brooklyn) and Mike “King” Kelly (Kelly’s Killers of Cincinnati) during a tumultuous age as teams and leagues were starting and folding abruptly.

• In ’86 with the St Louis Maroons, led the league in games played with 126
• Followed the team’s owner, Henry Lucas, to Indianapolis with the Hoosiers for 3 years
• Demonstrating a good eye, consistently ranked in the top 10 in walks