Before the pulps, there were the dime novels. The 14-July-1900 issue of Tip Top Weekly featured Frank Merriwell. Merriwell was an upright young man, a talented sportsman who neither smoked nor drank. I think he is the catcher in this baseball scene. Be sure to click on the image to see a larger version.
The image is from a wonderful but defunct Stanford University site, "Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls":
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html
Meanwhile the Giants have passed .500.
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Looks like there's some snapshots of that site on archive.org's wayback machine, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20110809040643/http://library.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html
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