Another T210 "Mystery" player

[Vintagecatcher]

Anyone able to identify the player in the T210 set listed as Harper, Shreveport Pirates. Harper isn't listed on the official 1910 team roster.

Thanks,

Patrick

[tiger8mush]

For reference ...

[fkm_bky]

Looks like Joe Jackson to me! Check out the ears! Sorry...I couldn't resist.

Bill

[jingram058]

Not only is there no record of him on any Shreveport Pirates roster that I can find on the internet, nothing comes up for anyone from that era named Harper other than George Harper (later, 1913 was his first professional year) and Taylor Harper (negro leagues ballplayer). So who is this fellow? Definitely a Shreveport uniform. Mis-named on the card, maybe?

[packs]

Maybe John Hilding? He caught for them in 1908.

[Pat R]

I don't know if it's him but there was an A. C. harper listed with Shreveport at a spring training in St. Louis in March 1910.

From March 21 1910 St. Louis Star newspaper

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[oldeboo]

Originally Posted by Pat R

I don't know if it's him but there was an A. C. harper listed with Shreveport at a spring training in St. Louis in March 1910.

From March 21 1910 St. Louis Star newspaper

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The "A.C." is after "Meridian" meaning the Meridian Athletic Club I believe. That's in reference to the person mentioned before Harper.

Here is another clip about this Harper fellow. As seen on the card he was a catcher. His nickname became "Badger" Harper because of a series of badger fights, not sure of his actual first name. Some probably called him "Goat" Harper as well. He was with the team at catcher behind Hinninger, but was let go in early May 1910. He wasn't with the team for a very long period of time.

[brass_rat]

Trey and Patrick,

Very interesting article clips, thanks for sharing. How did you both go about finding these?

Also, Trey, which paper is yours from?

Cheers,
Steve

[oldeboo]

That clip is from the April 9th 1910 edition of The Times(Shreveport, LA).

Generally, there are different newspaper archives both paid and unpaid available. Some of the free ones can actually be pretty good for occasional browsing. Here's a link to a few free ones like the Library of Congress archive. I'm sure there are others that work well too.

https://guides.library.cmu.edu/newsp...ewspaperguides

As far as a specific search, I just search for words like "Harper Baseball Shreveport" or different variations of that combined with focusing the search to a specific time range and location if available in the search.

[brass_rat]

Very cool, thank you... And to CMU for the nice documentation.

[Tom Hufford]

Don't know about Harper (yet), but the fellow referred to as "Dutch" Hinninger was Frank Joseph Hinninger - b. 10-17-1886 Cincinnati, OH; d. 10-28-1978 Clermont, OH; bur. Saint Mary Cemetery - Saint Bernard, OH. (not Henry Henninger, as listed in B-R.com)

[oldeboo]

It looks like "Badger" Harper also got a few pointers on catching from Roger Bresnahan while he helped out the Cardinals before reporting to Shreveport. The Cardinals were in Harper's hometown of Little Rock for training in the spring of 1910 and were short on catchers, so he helped out for a couple of weeks. He was with some pretty good company.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by oldeboo

It looks like "Badger" Harper also got a few pointers on catching from Roger Bresnahan while he helped out the Cardinals before reporting to Shreveport. The Cardinals were in Harper's hometown of Little Rock for training in the spring of 1910 and were short on catchers, so he helped out for a couple of weeks. He was with some pretty good company.

Wow, you folks are good! When I need my family tree researched further, you're hired!

[Vintagecatcher]

Thanks gentlemen. Nice work. We know he was a catcher that was named Harper and he played for Shreveport in Spring Training. He was a native of Little Rock.

The search continues.

Patrick

[Leon]

Nice teamwork guys!

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[Vintagecatcher]

Thought I found the catcher Harper from Little Rock. Unfortunately he would have been only 7 years old. No wonder the other players picked on him.

Patrick