Jeff or Ed Sweeney.. whichi is which

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

Is this the same guy or different players?

I can't find a Jeff Sweeney in the baseball-reference web site but I do find a Ed Sweeney noted as playing for the Yankees/Highlanders during the early part of the 1900s.

Is Ed Sweeney the same as Jeff Sweeney that Old Cardboard has listed in its checklists for T205 and E90-1 ??

http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sweenje02.shtml>

Marty

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Posted By: Pennsylvania Ted

My understanding is that Edward Francis Sweeney is named Jeff on all BB cards of him, and ditto, in the BB encylopedia.

Jeff was probably a nickname for him.

TED Z

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Posted By: Bob

Just going from memory it seems like I have 2 Sweeney cards in my E90-1 set, one the expensive short print and the other a common. Ted are you saying that both of these cards are the same guy?
tbob

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

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Posted By: Tony Andrea

Here's the two cards mentioned from the set.

Tony

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Can I bump this thread for some clarification?

The card just says "Sweeney", NY Amer.

The guy's name is Ed Sweeney in every publication that I can find. Yet only in the baseball card checklists do we see him referred to as "Jeff Sweeney". This doesn't make sense to me.

Is it possible that 15-20 years ago somebody was making a checklist and confused Ed Sweeney with a latter baseball player named Jeff Sweeney (who was BORN in 1908) and stuck... then every other internet site (including PSA, SGC, VCP, Beckett, etc) copied this checklist and assumed it was right since everybody else has it as "Jeff"?

The baseball statistics website does an excellent job with nicknames for EVERY other player out there.... yet has no mention of "Jeff" for this guy.

Any chance the hobby has had the wrong first name for this guy for years?

[bmarlowe1]

He is Edward Francis "Jeff" Sweeney, born 1888, MLB debut 1908.

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Found this... thanks Google for making research so easy these days!

http://books.google.com/books?id=xEo...20jeff&f=false

So yes, "Jeff" is correct. Thanks.