1921 New Orleans Pelicans Snapshots

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

From the estate of Dazzy Vance

Bert Griffith, Hank DeBerry and unidentifed


Ike Boone, ? Smith, and unidentified


Al Mamaux


Manager Johnny Dobbs


Bill Piercy and unidentifed


Red ? and ? Terkelson -notice the Cleveland ballcap? Cleveland played NO in Spring Training that year.


Tim Phillips -pitched a no hitter (Nearly perfect) in 1921 for the Pelicans


Unidentified

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

My Pelicans records only go back to '22, but I have to assume that the "Smith" is a guy named Bob E. Smith. No help with the others.

Al Mamaux was quite the oddball, judging purely on some rather lewd/profane album page inscriptions I have seen over the years.

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

I did find a record of a guy named Chet Torkelson who played with Beaumont (Texas League) the following season. My guess it that's who the "Terkelson" is.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Thanks Jodi, any ideas who the unidentified players could be? I'm wondering if the guy on the left in the top two photos is Dazzy himself....since these came from his album that may be why he only named two of the fellows in the photo.

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

No clue on the identity of these guys. The player on the far right in the first photo looks quite familiar (something inside of me is screaming "White Sox" for reasons unknown--maybe there's a subconscious connection there).

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

It does kind of look like the guy on the right here. This is also one of my unidentified photos.

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

No, I don't see a resmblence there.