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Posted By: barrysloate

To date there has never been a baseball dag found that shows equipment such as a bat and ball. The half plate dag of Alexander Cartwright is almost certainly a photo of some of his fellow Knicks, but no equipment shows and a few of the men pictured have not yet been identified. The other known Cartwright dags were taken in Hawaii in a non-baseball context. The image shown of two Excelsiors, one of whom appears to be Pearsall, has never been identified with certainty. Nothing else has even come close. Had this image of five gentleman been proven to be baseball, holding the two flags, one which certainly is the team flag, you would probably be looking at the most valuable known baseball photo, easily worth 150-200K. Baseball or not, it is aesthetically a masterpiece. What a find!