[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I've dealt extensively with the WWI cards. To find a player working such a job, and even far from his usual home, was not unusual at the time. In fact, he could very well have only been employed there to be a ringer on the company baseball team! Most of these jobs were classified as contributing to the war effort and consequently kept the player from having to fight in the war. Many players managed to snag such comfortable gigs. Cranston! Trim those sideburns!

The first thing you need to research is the company. Hopefully, you might find evidence of a baseball team associated with them.

I rarely deal with career minor leaguers, so this is a fellow I've never looked into. All I can say is that it's never a good idea to quickly dismiss any of these WWI cards just because a bit of info might seem off. You wouldn't believe all the differences to accepted "facts" that I unearthed years ago. Some of the information would be true, some false. It would be a huge job to go through every morsel of info gleaned from the cards to separate fact from error. I have a master list of all my notes from back then with regard to information that didn't jive with what we see from various online sources and hard copy encyclopedias. A veritable ton of differing DOBs, heights, middle names, etc.