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Posted By: davidcycleback

Definitely a very close resemblance, and the cabinet card is from the correct period. Good chance it's Mike Simon. Try and connect Mike to Peoria, which had a minor league team back then.

The Peoria ball club was part of the Illinois/Iowa/Indiana league, and Mike was born in Indiana. And Peoria did produce some future major leaguers, including Joe McGinnity.

One of the most standard ways to differentiate between someone and a lookalike are the ears-- the ears usually differ between people. These two guys have the same size ears plus the same cleft chin.