Wishful thinking?

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Posted By: jamie

I picked up this postcard recently and have desperately trying to identify the team. I've gone through all the Spalding guides that would match the period of this postcard (it's an Azo with four arrows up) and nothing seems to match.

I think the fellow on the right bears a striking similarity to Thorpe but the uniforms don't gel with any of the teams he played for during this period: the Milwaukee Brewers of the American Association, Rocky Mount Railroaders, and the Fayettville Highlanders.



Any thoughts as to whether this could be a young Thorpe?

By comparison:







The back offers a few clues but nothing helpful so far. Written in pencil is the following note (spelling errors as written):

Will send you one of the Gios pictures of the ballteam. Wood send you one of the kids but lost the one I had saved for you, but will have some more taken. The boy on the end is the one they sent back from Camp Sears, Sam Neuman is his name