c. 1911 Paul Thompson Photo ID Help

[prewarsports]

The image below is a Paul Thompson original Baseball photo. I have not been able to identify the player yet and was wondering if anyone on here knows who it is. The uniform looks like a St. Louis Browns jersey with the O placed slightly to the right on the button down middle of the jersey and the O partially visible and the black collar matches to the 1911 jerseys they had. Any ideas?

[rhettyeakley]

Looks like Jimmy Austin to me

[Jacklitsch]

Jimmy? Don't think so. I'll keep thinking because he does look very familiar.

Here's Jimmy:

[prewarsports]

Wow, Jimmy Austin I am pretty sure, even the ears match. I did not realize he was so old as a rookie in 1909. All the wrinkles threw me off! We could start a whole thread about early ballplayers and skin damage from playing all their careers in the sun with no protection. I wonder how many died of skin cancer as a result!

Rhys

[Jacklitsch]

But then Austin was a player/manager of the St. Louis Browns in 1913, 1918 and 1923 according to Baseball Reference.com

[prewarsports]

I looked at photos online and I am pretty ure it is him when you see other sideways views of him displaying his large nose and the ear similarities.

[milkit1]

it is undoubtably jimmy Austin

[bmarlowe1]

Austin for sure.

[prewarsports]

Thanks guys. I bought it as an unidentified Paul Thompson photo so its pretty cool that it turned out to be a legit star like Jimmy Austin and not a total nobody, not that it makes it a whole lot more valuable, but it is more significant in my opinion. Thanks again, that is what makes this forum great.

Rhys