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Posted By: runscott

I exchanged emails with the seller several months ago, and assured him that this is NOT Lajoie - perhaps his grandfather. This tintype was probably created about 10-20 years before Lajoie was even born. In fact, it's not even a baseball player - the backwards '4' probably represents the number of a local firestation.

I actually purchased this card from the seller at one point, then he pulled out because someone told him it was Lajoie. In the meantime I had figured out that "duh" baseball uniforms did not have numbers in the 1870s and that this was actually probably a fireman, so i was quite relieved that the seller had come up with this fantasy.