Indentification help

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

.. I'm thinking there's 4 letters before the " R ", ; based on the size of the other letters.

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How about Oberlin College? something like this...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/353979266073

EDIT: Edit to add mention of Oberlin's interesting place in history as an early stop in Moses Fleetwood Walker's career.

[hharm3]

Originally Posted by chadeast

How about Oberlin College? something like this...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/353979266073

Very possible.

[isiahfan]

looks like guy second from left...

https://www.alamy.com/the-ista-ber-o...1&searchtype=0

[hharm3]

Originally Posted by isiahfan

looks like guy second from left...

https://www.alamy.com/the-ista-ber-o...1&searchtype=0

Wow. Oberlin College is 30 minutes from Bluffton, OH.

[MikeGarcia]

[QUOTE=chadeast;2261063]How about Oberlin College? something like this...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/353979266073

. So the letters O , B , and E can readily be on the uniform's unseen side , and a scrunched up N is not a bad guess for the mystery of that last letter.

.. Now to assign a time period to the bat and mitt., and style of cabinet . Can you put up a scan of the back ? Might help.

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[hharm3]

[QUOTE=MikeGarcia;2261158]

Originally Posted by chadeast

How about Oberlin College? something like this...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/353979266073

. So the letters O , B , and E can readily be on the uniform's unseen side , and a scrunched up N is not a bad guess for the mystery of that last letter.

.. Now to assign a time period to the bat and mitt., and style of cabinet . Can you put up a scan of the back ? Might help.

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I don't have it in hand at the moment. It's at my MILs home. I didn't get a pic of the back because it was just plain cardboard (to my eye anyway).

[Kawika]

I have access to a website called EYearbooks which has school yearbooks for many colleges. This is the Oberlin baseball team as depicted in the 1910 volume. The uniform sported by the mystery battery is similar in some regards, different in others. 1910 was just a semi-wild guess on my part. If anybody has a better idea what year the picture was taken I'll take a further look.

[hharm3]

Could it be Livingstone?

[FrankWakefield]

Aloha, David!

Seems to me that Oberlin is the likely name on that jersey.

Great team picture, you guys are pretty good at sorting stuff out.

[gabrinus]

Great job David!!...Jerry

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Aloha, David!

Seems to me that Oberlin is the likely name on that jersey.

Great team picture, you guys are pretty good at sorting stuff out.

Aloha back to you, Frank. Hope all is well down Kentucky way. Here in British Siberia I've got some serious old-age shit going on. My head is bloody but unbowed.

I picked the year 1910 just for somewhere to start. It could have been taken years before or years after. Plenty of folks here have a better eye at conjecturing the date than I do. Would be interested to know the best guess. The 1910 team picture had some similarities in the uniform and some discrepancies. Probably is Oberlin but no smoking gun. If the ears fit you must acquit but I don't think Livingstone is the guy.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Kawika

I have access to a website called EYearbooks which has school yearbooks for many colleges. This is the Oberlin baseball team as depicted in the 1910 volume. The uniform sported by the mystery battery is similar in some regards, different in others. 1910 was just a semi-wild guess on my part. If anybody has a better idea what year the picture was taken I'll take a further look.

That's awesome, David. Thanks for the assist on this.
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