Need Help ID-ing 1926 Yankees-Tigers Players

[D. Broughman]

Is the runner going back to first?

[timzcardz]

Originally Posted by D. Broughman

Is the runner going back to first?

This is the second time that someone has suggested that it could be first base.

In post #5 above, I went through why I believed it to be at 3rd base, and not 1st or 2nd.

Is there something specific that you see that makes you think otherwise?




[Note: This started out with me buying what I thought was a rather cool and affordable negative, and has now become a full blown research project.

I thought that I had figured out who the Yankee runner may have been, which would then also yield the game and one of two innings, and now am at the point that I think I can only confidently rule out Ruth and Gehrig as possibiites!

At least I am still sure that it is the Tigers and Yankees. ]

[jacksons]

Tim -

Your point is that it cannot be first base, since the reversed original image shows the lettering on the Yankee player's uniform short as backwards, correct?

I still don't understand the photographic process enough to make sense of that, but if that's accurate, then it's third base.

Isn't this fun?!

[jacksons]

OK Tim - I'm going to get back to work real soon, but before I do, had to leave you with one more hint...

I got to thinking, if this was third base, then it could be the shortstop in the image, should the third baseman have been behind the bag covering a throw, or charged a bunt, fielded to first which was then relayed to the SS at third to get Dugan racing to the corner bag.

If it was the SS, then it would be Jackie Tavener, who played the bulk of games at SS in 1926.

Here's an image of Jackie - sure looks like him to me.

[Jaybird]

I see your point on the third base and agree with you on that. Thanks for the illustration and clarification.

I agree with Jacksons and think the player does look like the SS Jackie Tavener . Broad nose at the tip, deep set eyes, longish ears. bit of a protruding or defined chin.

[timzcardz]

Writing at top of negative reads . . .


"Play at Navin Field 1926"


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[Kawika]

My non-scientific first impression of this picture and some random thoughts: Yankee baserunner advanced (sacrifice fly maybe) to third. Throw late and off, no need slide. Maybe a triple. Who knows? Dugan had five in '26. Either way ump had time to position himself clear of the play. Is it Dugan? Looks like a burn victim to me or the guy from The Scream. Guy just to the right of runner's left knee has gotta be the pitcher; you can even make out the mound. Either that or the first sacker is eleven feet tall. First I thought he was a lefty based on the black blob at his right knee - that would have made it either Whitehill, Wells or reliever Johns. Then I considered that if it were his glove he'd have had to have had Marfan's Syndrome - arms would be abnormally long. Probably just a patch of dark background and so much for the "lefty" theory. The Detroiter making the play at third? Tavener is listed as having been 5'5". Our guy looks taller. Warner is listed as 5'9". Can you make this thumbnail of Warner equate? Nose looks more like Tavener. Mark F. would accuse me of hallucinatory wishful science if I said I thought it was one or the other. Jacksons got one thing right: This is fun!

Jack Warner per Baseball-Reference.com