I never compared them and it was just a hunch. They look similar enough that I thought that, but it obviously is not him. Must have been the premature balding that stuck in my mind.
The problem one runs into with 19th century Baseball is the regionalization. The "Champion Pitcher" or "Greatest Pitcher in World" to an Iowa kid would not be someone from the New York Giants etc. I dont doubt at all that this was a Baseball Pitcher of prominance. Whether he was prominant on the National Stage in 1880 or just a local hero will probably never be known.
Rhys
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