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Posted By: Richard

Thanks, Frank. I appreciate the response.

Aside from the back of the CJ itself, every source I've checked (Baseball-Reference, Wikipedia, BaseballCube, baseball-almanac) lists Toronto as his birth place. While I'd like to say that the odds are then in favour of the Cracker Jack being wrong, I was hesitant to go that far, as I assume all of these sites are ultimately using the same source, which really means one source says Wausau and one says Toronto.

After reading your response, I am now thinking that my original question should have simply been: "Has anyone found the bios on 1914/1915 Cracker Jacks to contain errors?"

That said, I am going to assume the Cracker Jack bio is wrong, unless or until some compelling evidence presents itself. If nothing else, this brings my 'pre-1920 Canadian-born type set' to a nice even 15 cards.

Thanks again, Frank.


Regards,

Richard.