Right below Hooper in the stats is Charles Graham (BA .301), the player/owner of the Sacramento team who sold Hooper to the Red Sox. Graham played a few games for Boston in 1906 and then returned to the West Coast. He is perhaps best known as a manager, part owner, and president of the SF Seals (from 1918 until his death in 1948). One of his partners in buying the Seals (Doc Strub) was also a player for Sacramento during the 1907 California League season and is listed in the stats (BA .250).
Pictured are Graham's 1909 Obak card, a posthumous 1949 Menko Card (his name is on the back in Japanese), and Seals programs from two different Charles Graham days.
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