T210 Old Mill "Mystery" Players

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I can tell you that Bryant D. Spicer signed with Portsmouth on March 6 1910, also he is the same Spicer that attended Fredericksburg College, He signed with Danville just out of college Feb 23 1908. He is originally from Orange, Virginia. By 1918 he was in the service and played on military teams. Between 1910 and 1918 somewhere he became the coach Woodbury Forest School, which he attended as a young man.

As to Zimmerman. An April 7 1911 newspaper article from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports of a Spring training game between the Superbas and Lynchburg, that Arthur Zimmerman, brother of Chicago Cubs Heinie Zimmerman is trying to secure a place on the Lynchburg team. The box score shows he had one hit in two at bats. Arthur was signed on Feb 19, 1911. BUT when reading further in the papers, on March 23, 1911 it tells of Arthur joining the squad AND wait for it......his brother William Zimmerman had tried to make the squad the year before..SO I would say the T210 depicts William Zimmerman, also a brother of Heinie.