Here's a 1914 Solly Hofman captioned the only year he played for the Tin Tops. He has a 1915 card from the set showing Peoria, but my guess, since Solly never played there, is that they meant to represent Izzy Hoffman, player-manager of the Peoria Distillers that one 1915 season.
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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