Folk Art Renditions of Baseball Players/ Who Are They?

[TaxMechanick]

Mark,

Well, for personal reasons, obviously I am really glad you did not bid higher. I'm really happy to have them.

As I said above, while bidding, I too assumed they were generic representations, rather then specific intended players. It was only after receiving them, and studying them in more detail, that my curiosity was piqued and this become a project for me.

I have not as of yet affirmed their identification, but I will keep working on it. Given other shared information from Butch7999, which I was able to easily locate online (funny, while previously searching, I was not able to locate such information; I guess I did not use the appropriate magic words), I am feeling confident that these are specific intended player representations, rather than generic depictions of baseball players... as I said I am feeling good that the one is intended to represent long John Riley; I'm not as confident on the other representing John Monte Ward, but, at least for now, it is what I have come up with....

In the meantime, if anyone else has any ideas or any positive affirmation on these, please do share...

Thanks & Best,
Glenn Mechanick