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Runscott
11-23-2011, 09:59 AM
I have more of these than I can count. Post up
http://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/Johnson.jpghttp://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/Johnson2.jpg
Is that WoJo on the left? (as we look at the screen)
Runscott
11-23-2011, 12:02 PM
Is that WoJo on the left? (as we look at the screen)
When I received the photo, I followed my own rules of i.d.'ing players:
Use my eyeballs. Yes, it looks like Walter Johnson (to me)
Does it make sense? No. The photo is of a player in a non-ML uni, probably taken in the '20s. Wrong time period.
No need to go further.
If it had been a photo from prior to Johnson's ML days, then I would have blown up the image and compared features to other known Johnson images. If it still looked like him, I probably would have then sent a copy to Hank. I would have followed the above steps, even if I had been told by the seller that it was Walter Johnson.
Same for the photo on the right - it's from the 1880's. If it had been the correct time period, it's still too small and fuzzy to make any determinations.
Hankphenom
11-23-2011, 02:06 PM
[QUOTE=Runscott;941781]When I received the photo, I followed my own rules of i.d.'ing players:
Use my eyeballs. Yes, it looks like Walter Johnson (to me)
Does it make sense? No. The photo is of a player in a non-ML uni, probably taken in the '20s. Wrong time period.
No need to go further.
If it had been a photo from prior to Johnson's ML days, then I would have blown up the image and compared features to other known Johnson images. If it still looked like him, I probably would have then sent a copy to Hank. I would have followed the above steps, even if I had been told by the seller that it was Walter Johnson.
That's a pretty remarkable resemblance to the 19 or 20-year-old Walter c. 1907-1908. If I had reason to believe it was him, I don't think I would question it. If I had a scanner, or was into this century technology-wise, I could send you a pic or two that would look pretty amazing side-by-side with
yours. Then we could go to work on the ears!
Runscott
11-23-2011, 02:50 PM
That's a pretty remarkable resemblance to the 19 or 20-year-old Walter c. 1907-1908. If I had reason to believe it was him, I don't think I would question it. If I had a scanner, or was into this century technology-wise, I could send you a pic or two that would look pretty amazing side-by-side with
yours. Then we could go to work on the ears!
Well, I would love to hear that it's him. I looked at it long and hard, but to me the uniforms and the photo itself looked 1920-ish.
Tell me I'm wrong - I want to believe :)
http://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/WJlookalike.jpeg
Hankphenom
11-23-2011, 03:09 PM
Well, I would love to hear that it's him. I looked at it long and hard, but to me the uniforms and the photo itself looked 1920-ish.
Tell me I'm wrong - I want to believe :)
http://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/WJlookalike.jpeg
Scott,
It's not him. I just realized the arms aren't long enough. Walter's were almost freakish. Strong resemblance otherwise, though, face and body. You can rest easy now.
Hank
Runscott
11-23-2011, 03:26 PM
Scott,
It's not him. I just realized the arms aren't long enough. Walter's were almost freakish. Strong resemblance otherwise, though, face and body. You can rest easy now.
Hank
Sorry, I posted the wrong photo:
http://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/WJlongarms.jpeg
Sorry, I posted the wrong photo:
http://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/WJlongarms.jpeg
HA!
Hankphenom
11-23-2011, 05:31 PM
Sorry, I posted the wrong photo:
http://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/WJlongarms.jpeg
That's great!
(Hey Leon, what's going on with the quote function, or is it me? I thought I just had to hit quote to get it into the blue.)
(Hey Leon, what's going on with the quote function, or is it me? I thought I just had to hit quote to get it into the blue.)
That's all I ever do.
Hankphenom
11-23-2011, 06:48 PM
That's all I ever do.
Thanks!