Editing Trading card (section)

=== Early baseball cards ===
{{Main|Baseball card}}
[[File:Adrian "Cap" Anson, Baseball Player, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes MET DP838205.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Cap Anson|Adrian C. Anson]] depicted on an [[Allen & Ginter]] [[cigarette card]], c. 1887]]
The first [[baseball card]]s were trade cards printed in the late 1860s by a sporting goods company, around the time baseball became a professional sport.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cycleback.com/1800s/trade.htm|title=Early Trade Cards|website=www.cycleback.com}}</ref> Most of the baseball cards around the beginning of the 20th century came in candy and tobacco products. It was during this era that the most valuable baseball card ever printed, the [[T206 Honus Wagner|T206 tobacco card featuring Honus Wagner]], was produced.<ref name=honuswag>{{cite web|title=The History of the T206 Honus Wagner Baseball Card|url=http://www.cardboardconnection.com/card-t206-honus-wagner|work=CardboardConnection.com|date=2 March 2012|publisher=The Cardboard Connection|access-date=16 May 2012}}</ref> The T206 set, distributed by the [[American Tobacco Company]] in 1909, is considered by collectors to be the most popular set of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/treasure/autont005.shtml|title=Tobacco Baseball Cards|website=www.baseball-almanac.com|access-date=14 February 2018}}</ref> In 1933, the [[Goudey|Goudey Gum Company]] of Boston issued baseball cards with players biographies on the backs and was the first to put baseball cards in bubble gum.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.psacard.com/errors/notfound|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715125202/http://www.psacard.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=3886&type=1|url-status=dead|title=The History of Goudey Gum Company|archivedate=July 15, 2011|website=[[Professional Sports Authenticator]] (PSA)}}</ref> The 1933 Goudey set remains one of the most popular and affordable vintage sets to this day.<ref>{{cite web|title=1933 Goudey Baseball Cards|url=http://www.cardboardconnection.com/baseball-cards/1933-goudey-baseball-cards|work=CardboardConnection.com|publisher=The Cardboard Connection|access-date=16 May 2012}}</ref> [[Bowman Gum]] of Philadelphia issued its first baseball cards in 1948.