I need help to identify old baseball team photos

[Leon]

Originally Posted by murphusa

Bow ties were big in prisons back in the 1890's

I am sure he got that from the writing on the back and it is the guards, not prisoners, on the team...is my guess. It's actually a pretty cool photo.

[murphusa]

Originally Posted by Leon

I am sure he got that from the writing on the back and it is the guards, not prisoners, on the team...is my guess. It's actually a pretty cool photo.

so the guards enlisted Mr Haggerty to play with them.

[GoCubsGo32]

Neat photo.Don't understand how come he didn't post a picture of the back of the photo when he needs/needed help?!

[jerseygary]

Am I crazy in thinking these are milkmen and not prisoners or their guards? I have never seen a prison photo that shows either inmates or guards in white uniforms. Besides, those aint baseball caps they are wearing either. This guy should be a creative writer or something.

[bgar3]

Agree, that it needs a lot more proof it is a baseball team. As has been mentioned, the boots are wrong, hats are wrong, no equipment displayed(unless i am missing something), not really a sports uniform, and even the number is wrong for all but professional teams of the time. (15 "players") not enough for 2 teams, too many for one, when most early photos of baseball teams (non professional), show 10 to 12 at the most. There is a great early photo on ebay of a group of Boston police in front of the station, as much as i wish it were the police baseball team, it is not, or at least there is no evidence of it.

[Michael B]

I would agree that it is definitely not a baseball team. No athlete who needs to run would wear knee high boots. Also the person on the left is wearing overalls. Probably a foreman.

Please also notice the 'vintage' identification. Pure bullcrap. It was probably written several days after he posted the photo here and it was identified as non-baseball. Notice the feathering on the writing. That happens when you write on older paper. It has started to break down and the ink spreads into the paper. Haggerty the baseball player? Maybe it is Dan Haggerty the actor (Grizzly Adams).

Leon, please excuse the language, but this person is a fornicating rectum.