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Todd, given the ambiguity of Lisa's grammar, maybe we're reading it wrong, sort of like a verbal version
of those novelty drawings that one stares at first seeing, say, an old crone's face but then after a minute it's the back of a young lady's head, but... Anyway, our take is that "Lisa R," who's assuming absolutely-not-Babe-Ruth is the Babe and at the center of the photo, wrote "The first black man playing ball is in the background as well as Bill summers and Charles Philippe." Then the label appears to state "Umpires Summers (and Xxx) talk over (old) times with Deacon." So we figure she meant that she thinks Summers (who may possibly actually be, or might maybe not be) umpire Bill Summers and "Charles Philippe" are the umps flanking definitely-not-Babe, whom the label seems to indicate is some guy named or nicknamed "Deacon." It's maybe a total coincidence that a "Deacon" and a "Phillippe" are both somehow connected to this photo (if only in Lisa's or her grandma's mind), but we're not really getting a suggestion that Deacon Phillippe is alleged to be in any way involved -- except, of course, that Deacon Phillippe was in fact Charles Louis "Deacon" Phillippe, so there is or was maybe some conflation of names in grandma's memory. At any rate, again, we're 99.9% certain that "Deacon"/not-Babe is not wearing a style of uniform ever worn by any Buffalo Bison team. A slightly better than cursory search of unis worn by Texas League Houston Buffaloes also failed to turn up any match to that buffalo-head logo, but more expert eyes might yet find something there... ETA: we already have the uncomfortable feeling that, even if the photo experts, facial recognition experts, and baseball history experts on this board combine to positively identify every guy in the photo and the venue and date the picture was taken, within a couple of months the pic will be available on eBay as a photo of Babe Ruth with Deacon Phillippe.
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