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Originally Posted by RUKen
I've pasted below the opening-day roster of the Reds in 1909, as reported in Sporting Life. The names on this roster that are not on the OP's list are:
Ralph Savidge, Jimmy Wacker, Rudy Hulswitt, Tom Downey, and Dick Bayless.
Names on the OP's list that were not on the opening-day roster reported in Sporting Life are:
Chick Autrey, Frank Roth, Jack Bushelman, Pat Ragan, and Roy Ellam.
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I've just seen a newspaper article from two days after opening day that indicate that Autrey and Ragan were already on the roster, so they must have been added after the Sporting Life went to publication. In another article, I learned that Wacker had been released by Cincinnati just prior to opening day and was reclaimed by the Pirates.
I agree now that the top row player is likely Hulswitt, and I also agree with the Moriarty ID.