Hi Bill, you're spot on about comparing young faces to old -- sometimes a strong similarity remains,
often there's little resemblance after many years (or even after not that many years -- oh for the head of hair
we all had just ten years ago!).
Glad to save you some time looking for Eastern League guys in the PCL, but really we've eliminated only
guys who played for Buffalo from 1906 to '08. Other players from other seasons, other teams, may be
among the reunion crowd. It's hit-and-miss, but Baseball-reference.com does feature photos of many career
minor-leaguers that could be useful for comparison. It'll be an arduous, time-consuming task no matter how
you go about it, but if you open up the page there that lists PCL seasons, you'll see links to each team,
and each team has a roster list for that season with links to each individual player and often a photo of the guy.
Those rosters are sortable by any statistical heading, so reunion guys with some identifiable physical trait
can be zeroed in on or eliminated. Ferinstance, player #4 in your photo looks about 5'5" and 130 pounds --
and younger than most of the other guys -- so if you see somebody with a face resembling his but that guy
was 6'3", 220, and born in 1875, that's probably not attendee #4. We'd also bet a day's wages that #16 is a redhead.
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