Eugene Napoleon DeMontreville-help

[FrankWakefield]

This is Bill's card... best I can do with what he sent me. We need to send him a teenager so he can learn software and hardware.

Great card, Bill!!!!





I think both cards depict Gene. His younger brother, Leon or "Lee", played for St. Louis in a few games in 1903. Lee's last year in organized ball seems to have been 1905, with Charleston in the Sally League, as a player manager. (He'd have seen that scrappy kid with Augusta in 1905, Ty Cobb.

So I think that both cards show Gene. There was only one DeMontreville with New Orleans in 1909 and 1910, Gene, or Eugene.

[rhettyeakley]

I have often wondered if the card titled "De Montreville" actually depicts Gene or not. It seems odd that they would make the distinction of adding the first initial for the "E. De Montreville" card unless they were trying to distinguish between 2 different guys. I also collect Zeenuts and in those sets when there is someone with the first initial or first name listed it is almost always to differentiate between two players with the same last name (usually on the same team).
Example:


The two cards could very well both be of Eugene, but could it be possible that Leon (his younger brother) possibly signed witht he team only not to make the team as a comeback attempt in baseball? I have obviously not done any research about it but it might be up someone's alley to do so.

-Rhett