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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Was there a Goodyear team? Anyone recognize this fellow? Team? Anything?<br /><br /> <img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/nudan92/Vintage%20Baseball%20Snapshots/goodyear.jpg"> <br />

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Posted By: <b>brian</b><p>Goodyear Tire & Rubber had a semi-pro football team at one time in Akron. Not sure whether they had a baseball team too?

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>The index for James Riley's Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues doesn't have a listing for Goodyear.<br /><br />Max

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Posted By: <b>Bob Pomilla</b><p>Four paragraphs down, there's a mention of Goodyear having a baseball team. Not much, but it does confirm a team existed.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newtorontohistorical.com/Goodyear%20Tire.htm" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.newtorontohistorical.com/Goodyear%20Tire.htm</a>

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Posted By: <b>Ryan Christoff</b><p>Dan, <br /><br />That's a great photo whether or not the player and/or team is ever identified. <br /><br />I'm a little reluctant to believe the "Good Year" team was affiliated with Goodyear Tires. It was probably some local semi-pro team sponsored by the local "Good Year Bakery" or "Good Year Ice Cream Parlor" or whatever. <br /><br />I can't say I recognize the player, but it does look similar to a young Roy Welmaker from the early 1940's when he had a mustache. I don't believe it's him, though. <br /><br />Is that a number 33 by his right foot? The style it was written in looks similar to Hooks Brothers photographers from Memphis. Are there any markings on the back? I'd love to see the other 32 photos in that series. Probably some amazing baseball images if this one is any indication. <br /><br />-Ryan<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Ryan, thanks...I picked this up at the antique show yesterday and the seller told me he had sold all the rest of the photos at the previous show, but he had left this one at home so he brought it to this show...lucky for me! Anyway it was framed and I had to take it out very carefully. It was also stuck to a foam backing with double sided tape which took me about a half-hour to carefully pull the photo away from...unfortunately there was no writing on the back. Isn't there a town in Ohio named 'Goodyear'?