Photo help please

[Chris-Counts]

This is a real long-shot, but it turns out that George Cutshaw, a decent major leaguer and an Obak card subject, played for the Bloomington Bloomers in 1908 and 1909. Anybody have a nice head shot of him? Another big leaguer, Les Nunamaker, played for them in 1910. Fred Beck, who has his very own T205 and T206, was a Bloomer from 1905 to 1908.

There's a wonderful website about the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League at www.three-eye.com. And for what's worth, there's a rural community called "Kentland" in Illinois.

By the way, that's a great-looking photo ...

[GoldenAge50s]

Chris---

That's a super job of info & research!

[slidekellyslide]

16 guys in the photo...very nice warmup jackets...this is undoubtedly a minor league club. Not sure if it's Bloomington or not, but that would be a good guess. I don't see Nunamaker in the photo, and nobody stands out.

[TheBig6]

Nice Cabinet Tony
Here's a Nunamaker card for comparision.

[slidekellyslide]

The guy in the dark sweater in the front row does bear some resemblance to Nunamaker, but he looks a bit small...hard to say with him crouching down, but Nunamaker was a pretty big guy.

[bmarlowe1]

This is the 1907 Bloomington 3-I League club. This is indicated by Bob Koestner, back row, 4th from the left (see photo below with Clev in 1910).

There were 4 other major leaguers on that club:
front row far left is likely Red Nelson, 3rd from left is likely Art Wilson.
back row left of Koestner is likely Fred Beck.

If you can put the photo down flat on a scanner at 600 dpi and email it to me, I can be more sure of those three.

Fred Donovan may be present - but the only images of him that I have aren't clear enough to be sure.

[3-2-count]

Hi Mark and thanks for jumping in. I've sent a scan as you requested to your email address and am attaching closeups of the players here as well.
Thanks to everyone who replied to the thread with what they know about this team. The knowledge here never ceases to amaze me and is appreciated.