Famous Player Wannabes
 

I have more of these than I can count. Post up

http://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/Johnson.jpghttp://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/Johnson2.jpg

looks like
 

Is that WoJo on the left? (as we look at the screen)

When I received the photo, I followed my own rules of i.d.'ing players:

1. Use my eyeballs. Yes, it looks like Walter Johnson (to me)
2. Does it make sense? No. The photo is of a player in a non-ML uni, probably taken in the '20s. Wrong time period.
3. No need to go further.

If it had been a photo from prior to Johnson's ML days, then I would have blown up the image and compared features to other known Johnson images. If it still looked like him, I probably would have then sent a copy to Hank. I would have followed the above steps, even if I had been told by the seller that it was Walter Johnson.

Same for the photo on the right - it's from the 1880's. If it had been the correct time period, it's still too small and fuzzy to make any determinations.

[QUOTE=Runscott;941781]When I received the photo, I followed my own rules of i.d.'ing players:

1. Use my eyeballs. Yes, it looks like Walter Johnson (to me)
2. Does it make sense? No. The photo is of a player in a non-ML uni, probably taken in the '20s. Wrong time period.
3. No need to go further.

If it had been a photo from prior to Johnson's ML days, then I would have blown up the image and compared features to other known Johnson images. If it still looked like him, I probably would have then sent a copy to Hank. I would have followed the above steps, even if I had been told by the seller that it was Walter Johnson.

That's a pretty remarkable resemblance to the 19 or 20-year-old Walter c. 1907-1908. If I had reason to believe it was him, I don't think I would question it. If I had a scanner, or was into this century technology-wise, I could send you a pic or two that would look pretty amazing side-by-side with
yours. Then we could go to work on the ears!

Well, I would love to hear that it's him. I looked at it long and hard, but to me the uniforms and the photo itself looked 1920-ish.

Tell me I'm wrong - I want to believe :)

http://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/WJlookalike.jpeg

Scott,
It's not him. I just realized the arms aren't long enough. Walter's were almost freakish. Strong resemblance otherwise, though, face and body. You can rest easy now.
Hank

Sorry, I posted the wrong photo:

http://runscott.homestead.com/Photos/WJlongarms.jpeg

HA!

That's great!

(Hey Leon, what's going on with the quote function, or is it me? I thought I just had to hit quote to get it into the blue.)

That's all I ever do.

Thanks!