T210 Series 8 Mystery player

[nolemmings]

Nice catch on Lower, Steve. He was on the team preseason and released June 10, 1910. Somewhat surprising his stats are not listed on Baseball Reference for the 1910 Barons. They got it wrong on his pitching arm too-- he was a righty, so it seems likely this is the intended subject of the T210 mystery man:


Birmingham Post-Herald: 14 Apr 1910, Thu · Page 12 [SAME PIC APPEARS IN TWO OTHER ISSUES OF THIS PAPER, with write-up on March 16, 1910]

[spec]

[QUOTE=nolemmings;2369653]Nice catch on Lower, Steve. He was on the team preseason and released June 10, 1910. Somewhat surprising his stats are not listed on Baseball Reference for the 1910 Barons.
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When a player does not appear in Baseball Reference statistics that usually is because Baseball Reference uses the statistical summaries from the Reach or Spalding guides. The guides often omitted players who failed to appear in a certain number of games (generally 10). A number of the players included in the T209 and T210 series are absent from Baseball Reference for this reason.

[nolemmings]

[QUOTE=spec;2369925]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Nice catch on Lower, Steve. He was on the team preseason and released June 10, 1910. Somewhat surprising his stats are not listed on Baseball Reference for the 1910 Barons.
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When a player does not appear in Baseball Reference statistics that usually is because Baseball Reference uses the statistical summaries from the Reach or Spalding guides. The guides often omitted players who failed to appear in a certain number of games (generally 10). A number of the players included in the T209 and T210 series are absent from Baseball Reference for this reason.

Good to know, although I bet some of these players are identified in team photos in the very guides that chose not to track their stats. I also see occasions, like here with Birmingham, where Baseball Reference lists players with no stats and with a question mark-- in this case Otis Stockdale and Moxie Maxwell.

Interestingly, there also seems to be some considerable discrepancy in what appears in Baseball Reference from what is shown in The Sporting Life. For example, the final 1910 season stats in the TSL show that Barons pitcher Fleharty had a record of 17-11, but Baseball Reference has him at 16-20. The other three pitchers with stated records in BR also do not match what is in TSL, although Flaherty is the most glaringly disparate. May not matter much to most folks 100+ years later, but I find it notable.

[RCMcKenzie]

After seeing the additional evidence that y'all found, I now agree that "Lower" is the best answer.