OK. The auction is over. Who is he?
 

OK. I didn't win it. Just curious.

What auction was this?

It was for a cabinet on eBay.

Bobby Flay's great grandfather?

Paul Waner.

Ouch.

LOL! Paul Waner prenatal by more than three years. Yes, the expertise of identification comes to the fore again. :D

haha!

It says right there: Kabler Clinton

Keyser Söze

He’s a usual suspect.

Actually for some reason I believe his last name was Louis, and 'St.' is an abbreviation for Steve. So yes, his name is likely Steve Louis.

Brian

I wonder if he is one of these fine gentlemen? Sorry I couldn't find a bigger image, but the uniforms look close.

Possibly this guy? His jersey seems to be at least very similar to 1888-1890 St. Louis Browns, and Billy Hart played for the Browns in 1890.

<a href="https://ibb.co/Vx6y6MF"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/C6LdLVj/BR-Ref-Billy-Hart.png" alt="BR-Ref-Billy-Hart" border="0"></a>

Certainly looks like a real possibility

Looks more like Joe Jackson to me. :D

Jack Stivetts https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...tiveja01.shtml

I'm going with Mark Zuckerberg.

Are these funny?
 

I'm mystified about some of the responses here... if you're going to clutter up a thread with irrelevant stuff, at least make an effort to come up with something that's actually humorous....

If in fact this is a Major League St. Louis uniform/player, the first place to start looking would be a player that lived in the Clinton, MA area. That would be the only reason that he would have had his photo taken in a Clinton studio. I attempted to search for such, but unfortunately the few that matched the criteria did not have images on wikipedia or baseball reference....

To be fair Waner and Jackson are running jokes.

I agree

You guys are all wrong; it's obviously Charles Comiskey. ;)

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