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Old 09-17-2024, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by sporteq View Post
Here ya go
Ummm, the photo is not from 1901, and every ID is wrong except for Ritchey and Wagner. (To start, Jimmy Williams jumped to the Baltimore Orioles before he began spring training in 1901, Bones Ely was released by the Pirates in late July of that year, and Ed Doheny signed with the Pirates after Ely's release. Also, Tommy Leach was five inches shorter than Honus Wagner.) That caption was written by someone within the last few decades. What we need is a contemporary newspaper image with IDs, but I've checked newspapers.com and haven't found this image.

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