Is there a genre of collectable other than baseball cards that inspires such a devoted following and booming marketplace? Beginning in the late 19th century, tobacco companies began inserting cards depicting ballplayers with their products. By the early 1900s, candy companies were doing the same, and in 1933, Goudey Gum produced its landmark set, kicking off the era of gum cards that later saw the rise of both the Bowman and Topps gum companies. Included here are galleries displaying Tobacco & Candy Cards, Early Gum Cards, Bowman Gum Cards, Topps & Bazooka Gum Cards, Red Man Chewing Tobacco cards and Misc. Post WWII Cards, which includes an assortment of lesser known and oddball national and regional issues.