HELP: Player identification

[Bucs9]

It is really interesting and fun to hear all of your responses. It prompted me to continue researching for their identities. At the same time . This type of exercise can be really frustrating. Right?

[sporteq]

Here ya go

[RUKen]

Originally Posted by sporteq

Here ya go

Ummm, the photo is not from 1901, and every ID is wrong except for Ritchey and Wagner. (To start, Jimmy Williams jumped to the Baltimore Orioles before he began spring training in 1901, Bones Ely was released by the Pirates in late July of that year, and Ed Doheny signed with the Pirates after Ely's release. Also, Tommy Leach was five inches shorter than Honus Wagner.) That caption was written by someone within the last few decades. What we need is a contemporary newspaper image with IDs, but I've checked newspapers.com and haven't found this image.

[sporteq]

Originally Posted by RUKen

Ummm, the photo is not from 1901, and every ID is wrong except for Ritchey and Wagner. (To start, Jimmy Williams jumped to the Baltimore Orioles before he began spring training in 1901, Bones Ely was released by the Pirates in late July of that year, and Ed Doheny signed with the Pirates after Ely's release. Also, Tommy Leach was five inches shorter than Honus Wagner.) That caption was written by someone within the last few decades. What we need is a contemporary newspaper image with IDs, but I've checked newspapers.com and haven't found this image.

I got it from here.. they did article on Wagner called, “ Honus Wagner’s Rookie Year, 1895”

[RUKen]

Originally Posted by sporteq

I got it from here.. they did article on Wagner called, “ Honus Wagner’s Rookie Year, 1895”

That was posted by John Thorn on his blog in 2017. John should have known better, but maybe he was jet-lagged like I was when I made my first post in this thread last week.

[sporteq]

Originally Posted by RUKen

That was posted by John Thorn on his blog in 2017. John should have known better, but maybe he was jet-lagged like I was when I made my first post in this thread last week.

Yup, thee John Thorn baseball historian.. baseball is his life. Must have been a late night for him.

[Cliff Bowman]

My bad, wrong year .