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Posted By: Bob Manning

SORRY! This was supposed to be posted as a reply to the long thread "Curious About This Photograph." But my computer skills are wanting. Anyway, go to the bottom of CATP and see the 1888 Cleveland Blues. Then this may make actual sense.

Bob

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Well, here's a start:

The Blues played in the American Association (then considered a major league) for two years of which this is the second. Not all of the men in the photo are players:

1Cub Stricker (2B)
2Ed McKeon ("McKean") (SS)
3Darby O'Brien (P)
4Ed Hogan (OF)
5Bill McClellan (OF)
6George Prosser (P)
7Ed Keas (OF)
8(?) Loftus (MGR)
9Jay Faatz (1B)
10George Howe (President)
11Chief Zimmer (C)
12Gus Albert(s) (3B)
13Deacon McGuire (OF)
14Bob Gilts ("Gilks") (OF
15Dick Van Sant ("Van Zant") (P)

Several went on to long and successful big league careers. See especially Deacon McGuire and Chief Zimmer.