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Posted By: barrysloate

Rob- there have been newspaper articles found discussing the match, and the four players were identified in the article. We know what Harry and Sam Wright look like, and there is one other known photo of Crossley (which also includes Harry Wright and Henry Chadwick). I've yet to find another picture of Hammond, but we can identify him by process of elimination.

And while the newspaper article is from 1863, there is another very easy way to date this. Not only do we know the matches were held Sept 16,17, and 18, but we know the days of the week- Wed, Thurs, and Fri. If you go to a perpetual calendar, the only time in that era those days and dates coincided were 1857, 1863, and 1868 (a leap year). The first one is clearly too early, the latter clearly too late as both Wrights were involved inorganized baseball in other cities (and George would have been 21, too old for his Jordan & Co. photo).