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Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey
Here's another player that did not have an id from the NYPL catalog. Hopefully somebody knows who this is, as this is a very nice cabinet photo from around 1890.
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Originally Posted by RUKen
The October 2014 issue of the SABR Pictorial History Research Committee Newsletter included a couple of group photos of the 1890 Phillies with IDs. I'm not an ID expert, but I think that the player in post #27611 (on the right below) may be the player identified in one of the 1890 photos as Bill Gray (on the left, but I'm not so sure the ears match).
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Originally Posted by Cusick
Tom Vickery won 24 games for the 1890 Phillies, but lost 22. Unfortunately, I don't have a photo of him to use for comparison purposes, but this woodcut from The New York Clipper seems to line up pretty well against the second unidentified player. Again, I couldn't find any other player who made such a close match, and I ruled out Billy Gray on the basis of the same ear not matching in the two photos presented above.
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The ears do not match for either Gray or Vickery, whose photos are shown below.