John E. McInnis Philadelphia-N 11/16/11

John E. McInnis Philadelphia-N played professional baseball during the early twentieth century, in the era documented by the tobacco-and-caramel card issues of the day. His likeness survives in the cardboard record on the Sporting News Supplements 1909-13 issue. The Sporting News Supplements 1909-13 series consists of large-format photographic supplements distributed with newspapers of the period, prized today as among the most evocative visual records of pre-war professional baseball. Detailed biographical records for many supporting players of the 1909-1915 era are sparse; what survives in the historical ledger is often the cardboard itself, which fixes the player in time and team even when the fuller arc of his life is no longer recoverable. This particular catalog entry corresponds to the card variant identified as "John E. McInnis Philadelphia-N 11/16/11".