Extraordinarily rare wire service photo of Cap Anson, the game’s most important and glorified figure of the 19th Century, and in retrospect one of its most loathsome ever since his racism helped keep blacks out of the game. The first to collect 3,000 hits, Anson won 3 batting titles for the Chicago White Stockings (later Cubs) and won 5 pennants as player-manager. Undated 4.75 x 6.5” photo has a ghostly, light-sepia tone and shows an aging Anson swinging a bat in a ramshackle stadium with Chicago tenement buildings in the background. This may have been its original printing or a subsequent reprint by Gilliams Press Syndicate, whose stamping is on back along with a handwritten “Cap Anson”. There’s also a stamping by Culver Pictures Inc., which later purchased it for its archives. Photo is a nice and glossy EX with corner bending nearly invisible at a distance.