Thread: Denny Lyons?
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Old 03-28-2013, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by bmarlowe1 View Post
Well, the Kalamazoo Bats cards actually depict Harry Lyons (not Denny Lyons). These images also misidentified as Denny in the NYPL Spalding collection. See also page 13 in this:

https://sabr.box.com/shared/static/5...xd1jbmc6ln.pdf

Getting back to your photo - I don't know if the batter is Harry Lyons. Send me a hi-res and I'll try to figure it out.
Thanks Mark. Very interesting - lots of misidentification going on, even back at a time when the facts were seemingly readily available.

I'll email you a hi-res scan - thanks!
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