HELP: Player identification

[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 .

[Cliff Bowman]

My bad, wrong year .

[Cliff Bowman]

My bad, wrong year .

[RUKen]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

These are taken from a 1906 Pirates team photo, do any of them look like a match for #1 or #6?

The image you've posted is from 1905. It was published in the Pittsburg Daily Post on April 9th of that year.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by RUKen

The image you've posted is from 1905. It was published in the Pittsburg Daily Post on April 9th of that year.

Whew, I'm glad you told me now before I posted who I thought was on the photo and had quite a few wrong, I thought it was a 1906 team photo because that is what the eBay seller has it listed as. https://www.ebay.com/itm/40210091525...625TAZA&edge=0