My wife is related to Ellis Blackstone who played for Greenville 1909-12 and Petersburg 1912-13.
We found out about his baseball when I was looking at the T209 site and came across his card. I asked her if she had any baseball playing relatives and she didn't think so. After looking up the name I showed her the picture of the card. She's done a lot of geneology, so finding out he'd played minor league ball was a surprise.
I'm still occasionally doing a bit of research on him. Not much to find so far.
There was a Joe Birmingham that played major league ball, but I don't think he's related at all.
Steve B
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