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09-22-2005, 01:11 PM
Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>Just got this photo and am having trouble identifying the player. "1914 A's" written on back of photo.<br /><br /><a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/4729/1914athletic0yq.jpg" border="0" width="630" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a>
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09-22-2005, 02:15 PM
Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>Are you sure it's the Philadelphia A's? Looks like it could just be a player from some Town team or minor league team called the A's.?.?<br /><br />Rob M.
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09-22-2005, 02:34 PM
Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>I'm not 100% positive, but the hat matches the same ones the Philadelphia A's wore in that time period. Someone has emailed me and thinks it may be Elmer Myers or Jack Nabors. A quick check of the Baseball Almanac shows that both of those players started their career with the A's in 1915.
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09-22-2005, 02:35 PM
Posted By: <b>Todd Schultz</b><p>the uniform matches the 1914 Philadalephia A's.
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09-22-2005, 05:19 PM
Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>(toe-plate on right shoe)
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09-22-2005, 07:54 PM
Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>Nice catch Scott. I hadn't noticed that. That means that it could be either Myers or Nabors because they were both RH pitchers. I found a picture of Nabors, and I don't think it's him. I couldn't locate a picture of Myers.<br /><br />Edited because I don't proofread.
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09-22-2005, 07:57 PM
Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>known photo of Nabors<br /><br /><img src="http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/photos/headshots/Nabors_Jack.gif">
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09-22-2005, 09:14 PM
Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>If that notation was written a few years after the fact it could be off by a couple of years. I know my memory doesn't always work so good so the owner of the photo could easily suffer the same....oh, crap...forgot where I was going with this.<br /><br />Rob M. (I think)
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09-23-2005, 02:57 AM
Posted By: <b>Brad Green</b><p><br /><br />You might consider asking the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society for help identifying this player or peruse their website for pictures that might closely match the player shown above.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.philadelphiaathletics.org" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.philadelphiaathletics.org</a>/<br /><br /><br />