• Card series: Beginnings: 1880's
• City: Detroit
• Team: Wolverines
• League: National League
• Hall: National Baseball Hall of Fame

James Laurie “Deacon” White (1847-1939). Considered the greatest catcher of baseball’s barehanded period (1870s), White eventually moved to 3rd base, played 23 seasons, won 6 championships, and played with a number of the century’s best players on a number of the century’s best teams.

• 1st person to bat in 1st pro league, in 1871, earning a hit – a double
• Reportedly believed the earth is flat
• 2 batting titles; 3 RBI titles
• Elected to Hall of Fame: 2013

• Although the Old Judge series features nine known poses of Deacon White (including the McGreachery pose), this photo was taken during the Tomlinson Studio photoshoot of 1886 in Detroit and is not known to exist in the Old Judge series.