[QUOTE=Runscott;941781]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.
That's a pretty remarkable resemblance to the 19 or 20-year-old Walter c. 1907-1908. If I had reason to believe it was him, I don't think I would question it. If I had a scanner, or was into this century technology-wise, I could send you a pic or two that would look pretty amazing side-by-side with
yours. Then we could go to work on the ears!