I actually saw that album on ebay because of the baseball reference (showed up in some of my searches) and bid on it, but not for the Baseball photo. I came up about $1000 short in the end. It had some tremendous early photos of other subjects and I doubt the winner placed much if any value on the "Baseball" photo. However, it does look a lot like Lee Richmond from my memory, who was the worlds first successful Left Handed Pitcher around 1880-1884 which would be about when this book was put together. I am not making any claims and I have not even compared any photos of him, but the second I saw this I thought to myself, "Wow, I think that is Lee Richmond". Even if substantiated it would not be the most valuable photo in the book, but I dont think it is a scam. Anyone else think it looks like Lee Richmond? I need to find a photo of him and compare to see why I thought this and hopefully I am not so far off that I look like an idiot.
Rhys
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