Help on ID on this vintage baseball team picture

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Posted By: Danny

Happy 4th of July everybody... I have always looking for Dummy Hoy and Dummy Taylor and I end up found something intresting, Two "Dummy" players that I never heard on this photo. Thought would be nice to have it on my hand. I would def want to know more about this team. Any of you got any hints?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=014&item=330000834116&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

JC on the jersey.. I couldnt think of something but Jersey City??? lol


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Thanks-
Danny


Always buying anything related to Dummy Hoy and Dummy Taylor

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Posted By: Anonymous

anyone??

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Posted By: steve f

These fellows in uniform appear college age and not your typical minor leaguers. The Jesuits often ran higher education and sports for the deaf (and dumb)folk.

Edited to add; The watermark on the typed roster appears to have said U "NIVERSI" TY

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Posted By: edacra

Looks like it could be the Jersey City Skeeters. 1902 was the year they built Skeeters Park and joined the Eastern League - then they won the championship the year after that. They used a logo like that. You really would have to match the names up, but one would think any team with two guys nicknamed Dummy should be pretty distinctive.

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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

According to the photo, the team manager was a "Dr. Preston". The Skeeter team manager in 1902 was a Billy Murray.

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=7

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Posted By: edacra

The photo pre-dates the 1902 printing.

(so it's possible Bill Murray was still on Second City at the time, and Dr. Preston was still in practice.)