ID Help: MOE BERG?? 1923/24 Brooklyn Robins? (Bonus: There is a Dog Smoking a Pipe!)

[Jobu]

Gene Bailey is the guy on the far right. He was on the team in 1923-24. Wilbert Robinson, Zach Wheat are center front row. Can anyone help me pin down other IDs so that I can figure out which year this is from?

I have scans of the full photo and then larger left-right scans, making sure to include the dog smoking the pipe in both images.

Thanks in advance

[brianp-beme]

Although I don't condone the behavior in humans, that dog smoking the pipe is the bomb.

Offhand I don't spot anyone, but I am sure some can.

Brian

[Dewey]

Judging by the hats, looks like 1923 uniforms. That's my guess. Best dog photo ever.

http://www.tailgatingjerseys.com/brooklyn-1920s.html

[Jobu]

Good call Dewey - from the Hall of Fame's Dressed to the Nines uniform database, it looks like they are wearing 1923 home uniforms.

[CobbSpikedMe]

That dog was made famous in the various "Dogs Playing Poker" paintings. Awesome to see an actual photo of him.

[Leon]

Great photo of a dog smoking in the first post....but I have nothing on the IDs

Here is a pc with one smoking a cigarette....sorry it's a bit OT but what the heck.

[icollectDCsports]

Originally Posted by Leon

a bit OT but what the heck.

Appears to be Pre-War.

[lumberjack]

SABR historians Steve Sternberg and Lyle Spatz have just written a book, "Comeback Pitchers." On page 325 is a shot of Uncle Robbie in the same exact clothes with that weird dog. The dog has on a Brooklyn cap and is wearing goggles, like a '20s pilot would have worn. Why would anyone joke about such a thing.

Pretty good book, by the way.
lumberjack

[Jobu]

John - I did a side-by-side with Hungling. Looks pretty good to me:

Hunling.jpg

Still curious what the crowd thinks about the Moe Berg id. I think the shape of the face, head, and features is right and that the shadow from the cap is making it hard to tell how heavy his eyebrows are.

I forgot to post the back. This is an RPPC that was owned by Gene Bailey - his daughter mis-id'd the team and the year on the back. Below is also another photo of him and Charlie Hargreaves (the back says 1924 but they were both on the team in 1923-24).

[bgar3]

If that is actually a spring training image, and if Berg only played with them in 1923, then it is very unlikely that is Berg. In the spring of 1923 he was still playing for Princeton, as late as June I believe, and he was apparently gone in 1924. A lot of ifs in this, I know.

[FrankWakefield]

I don't know...

But before I looked at the responding posts, I looked along at the players. Jumping out at me was the 6th fellow from the left, standing. He's turned his face away from the photographer as he talks to the fellow to his left. My guess was that he looked like Moe based on my recollection of his likeness from cards and pictures. Baseball Reference has him at 6'1".