Seeing Where the Cubs Played 131 Years Ago

A break from the break.  You might argue it was the ultimate barnstorming trip.  In the offseason of 1888-89, Al Spalding, President and part-owner of the Chicago Cubs (then called the Chicago White Stockings), took the White Stockings and a team of National League All-Stars on an around-the-world tour, to promote baseball and his sporting goods company.  While the two teams stopped literally all over the world¹, the most famous stop was in Egypt, where the two teams played a baseball game in front of the Pyramids and by the Sphinx.

The stop in Cairo resulted in the most iconic photo of the entire trip: