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Originally Posted by Leon
Is that WoJo on the left? (as we look at the screen)
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When I received the photo, I followed my own rules of i.d.'ing players:
- Use my eyeballs. Yes, it looks like Walter Johnson (to me)
- Does it make sense? No. The photo is of a player in a non-ML uni, probably taken in the '20s. Wrong time period.
- No need to go further.
If it had been a photo from prior to Johnson's ML days, then I would have blown up the image and compared features to other known Johnson images. If it still looked like him, I probably would have then sent a copy to Hank. I would have followed the above steps, even if I had been told by the seller that it was Walter Johnson.
Same for the photo on the right - it's from the 1880's. If it had been the correct time period, it's still too small and fuzzy to make any determinations.