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Old 01-02-2011, 06:38 AM
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Default Need Help ID-ing 1926 Yankees-Tigers Players

I recently picked up the glass negative for the following picture, knowing only that it was Yankees at Tigers from 1926.




Started first with trying to ID the Yankees player based on what appears to be an unusually long face and I think that it is Garland Braxton.



Garland Braxton:



1926 Yankees with Braxton circled:



If it is Braxton, then the only game that he played in at Detroit and reached base was June 9, 1926, in which he got the win pitching the 8th and 9th. (I checked retrosheet.org and they didn't have the play byplay for any of the games that may have enabled me to determine exactly who had reached third in the games.)

If that is true, and assuming that the Detroit player is the third baseman, that would make the Detroit player Jack Warner. Does that look like him?






If it is not Braxton/Warner, the other Detroit players at third against the Yankees in 1926 were O'Rourke and Gehringer.

I like the image. Figuring out definitively who the players are, and possibly when the game was played, will just add to the enjoyment.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.
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