Steve,
As an early base ball collector, I would like to see it be the Knickerbockers.
However, I don’t really see it. Having said that I am not the best at this, but have been helped by Mark Fimoff in the past and trust his judgment. I would be curious as to his reasoning. As for John Thorn, he has also been helpful to me, not on identifying people, but on historical matters, on which he is an expert. He has done extensive work on Doc Adams and Wheaton and I would also take his opinion over mine. I acknowledge I am no expert, but if I had to choose, I would go with their opinion absent some conclusive evidence to the contrary. To me, resemblance is not that.
Good luck, I really hope it is them and some further evidence turns up.
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