Help to identify baseball team from old photo & rppc

[slidekellyslide]

The Flint Vehicles of the Southern Michigan League. You found the needle in the haystack.

[MENAHAN319]

Thanks, Dan!! I may be pushing my luck to identify the player in the photo. I did find a roster for the 1908 team on baseball-reference.com That player may be listed there, I'm trying a web search to find photos of the players listed. wish me luck!
thanks again, Tara

[Jaybird]

Nice work, Tara. Congrats on finding the team. YOu could also try searching local papers archives for box scores, etc. The guy is in a pitching pose, so I would assume pitcher. At least that's the research angle I would try first. Then take all of the pitchers from that roster and try to put a face with the names.

[MENAHAN319]

Thanks, Jason, I'm kicking myself for not even thinking about this player being a pitcher!!! It seems so obvious now. lol Anyway, that narrowed down the field of choices to about 6 according to baseball-reference.com. I think that it might be Gene "Rubber Arm" Krapp. I included a Wiki pic of his baseball card when he played with the Portland Beavers. thanks for the suggestion!

[Jaybird]

Holy Krapp! I don't normally say this but that looks like a match to me. See if you can find any photos of Krapp. to match with your photo.

[MENAHAN319]

Ha ha!! holy Krapp...that's awesome! I see a lot of similarities in the mouth.. especially the area between the nose and mouth. yeah, I'm looking to find actual photos of him online, no luck so far... thanks

[Jaybird]

Here he is with Buffalo Feds... It's him.