[SPORTS]. Allen & Ginter’s “World’s Champions” tobacco card album. Richmond: Allen & Ginter, n.d. [ca. 1885]. 8vo (203 x 153 mm). Numerous chromolithographs highlighting 50 entries of the company’s second series of “World’s Champions” insert card release of premium tobacco cards. Original color pictorial wrappers, silk cord (few tiny spots of edgewear, else fine). “Allen & Ginter issued two distinct ‘Champions’ series – each one consisting of a total of 50 cards. Today, the second series cards are significantly rarer” (Beckett). The sets included stars from several sports including baseball, tennis, boxers and sharpshooters. One of the notable cards includes the Baseball Hall of Fame legend Buck Ewing, who was among the first 19th-century players elected and the first member who was primarily a catcher.