People see what they want to see. Whenever we have one of these posts, we have a couple of people pointing out a couple of minor similarities between the anonymous person's features and those of a famous ball-player. You don't need to do that when it actually is a picture of the famous ball-player. You just look at it and say, "Hey, cool picture of Wagner you've got there." We have very intricately evolved facial recognition adaptations. My guess is most people here are as good at telling if something is a picture of Christy Mathewson's T206-era face as they are at identifying recent pictures of their own family members. If the group is saying no, the answer is no.
The only ambiguous one I can recall is the possible Joe Jackson in the T202 center panel, and that is the proverbial exception that proves the rule as it's such a poor image for identification purposes that I wouldn't feel confident identifying my own father in it (or rather, in a photo of similar quality).
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