Now that is a great fiance! Number of workman gloves, and number of what appear to be string handled bats. Workman gloves were worn by a number of players on both hands. I do not see in my opinion a darker skin player, I think the gentleman is wearing two workman gloves, but it could be, question as to whether he is wearing workman gloves or not. Dating is interesting and I am curious to hear others thoughts. Looks to be a cabinet photo and not a cdv correct? Given the amount of equipment and type and relatively modern proportioned shape of bats, and string, workman, etc., I would date c.1885-1890. Can you make out what appears to be a vertical dedication above a particular player? Might be a player name. if a dedication to someone, Perhaps he married the person to whom it is dedicated, might get the name of the player from wedding records, though all of this is likely a long shot in many ways, including that the photo won her over.
would be curious to see an image of the back, does the back state who the maker is and/or any other information.