Eugene Napoleon DeMontreville-help

[rhettyeakley]

Frank, you may very well be right, as I said before.

That being said however, every other instance in the T210 series when there is a first initial it is there to distinguish between 2 different people w/ the same last names on the same team. I still feel like it should be looked into a bit more.
-Rhett

[DixieBaseball]

I think it is meant to be 2 different De Montreville's. Perhaps a cousin, or a token addition to the roster at the time the cards were produced for the washed up brother. I am with Rhett, way too obvious to list one with intial, and one without... I would be satisfied after looking through the season's box scores for New Orleans... Of course, that chore may take awhile. I might not dispute that they are the same person in the pictures, but my gut tells me there was a second De Mont relative playing in some capacity... Could the Brother have been an assistant coach... Possibly a third brother or Cousin !?!

[FrankWakefield]

In looking at the minor league database, I see only one DeMontreville with New Orleans in 1910. I agree that use of an initial would be the sensible way to distinguish between players, generally.

I wonder what it says on T211. From looking at Mr. Lipset's Red Sun list, there are 2 DeMontreville cards, one with an E in front, one without.

If the younger brother Lee, who was up only one year in the majors, had still been playing when T210s and T211s were issued, then I could see how one could be Lee, and the other one a card for a coach brother, or a cousin. But as it is, Gene was well known when he played with New Orleans in 1909 and 1910; while the only other DeMontreville who played in the minors was Lee, who was done with the 1905 season. So I still think that's 2 cards for one player. And I understand why you guys don't think so...

There has to be some link between the big border T210s and the big border T211s. Some of the big border players have T206 cards, too. Here, with DeMontreville, at least one of those has the big red border. I can't be sure on the E card...