• Card series: Beginnings: 1880's
• City: Baltimore
• Team: Orioles
• League: American Association

Michael Joseph Griffin (1865-1908) was an accomplished center fielder for the AA’s Orioles, the Players’ League’s Athletics and the NL’s Bridegrooms over 12 seasons. He batted over .300 six times, scored 100+ runs ten times and stole 473 bases. On 4/16/87 he became the 1st ML player to hit a HR in his first plate appearance. Ended his career as player-mgr for Brooklyn.

• Caught up in the Baltimore/Brooklyn merger in ’98, won a salary judgment of $2,300 and retired
• Managed local Utica breweries until his death from pneumonia at 43

• Griffin’s uniform color on this card was changed in May, 2017 from black to blue/red to reflect recent reliable research by Craig Brown & friends at Threads of Our Game. Nine cards had been previously released featuring a black uniform.