Anyone think that these depict the same ballplayer?

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

The red border Old Mill card is from 1910, a series 6 T210.

I bought the cabinet from Dan B above (thank you Dan, super packaging, quick shipping) and he says 1890's, which sounds about right to me.

If it is the same guy, I figure he's wearing different Paris jerseys, home and away (when did they start doing that?)... Or maybe that is him in the mid to late 1890s in the Cabinet and then near the end of his career in the 1910 Old Mill card.

It seems slightly more likely to me that the ball players depicted aren't the same person. But I'm not certain of that. I'm aware of my bias hoping they're one in the same.

I spent 2 evenings with my mother, pouring over old family photographs, getting her to identify my family inlaws and outlaws... she didn't recognize some of the older photos. I've written on the backs of some of the newer stuff. My point, all us us, "WE" (plural) need to do that, even if we know who they are. Our kids may well not know. At their young age they don't even care. But one day they may well care, and if we're gone, or can't remember, then that information is lost forever. Nothing is written on the back of that Paris cabinet, but I certainly wish there was!