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Originally Posted by Cusick
UK Baseball Fan and I have had some private conversations trying to figure out how the one-game major league player who appeared for the 1886 New York Metropolitans of the American Association as a pitcher and outfielder received an identification change from Harry Brooks to Fred Mauer. We still don't know. In any event, Fred Mauer is not on the Missing Players List, so it is assumed that someone has an image of him. This is a request that the image be posted. Thanks.
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Required photo has been included in an email sent to Bill Carle with a copy to Cusick. May I add for the benefit of all readers that player photos, including Mauer, can inevitably be found if you download the facepack. Again I would like to emphasize that the whole original purpose of the main image thread on this site, as indicated by its name, was for contributors to post images to be used by the co-ordinator to improve the main photopack or facepack and for posts to be used by Pegasus to update his facepack.
May I also provide an update to the change from Harry Brooks to Fred Mauer provided by Bill Carle in response to an email initiated by Cusick. Apparently Brooks was a fake name used by Mauer. Baseball researchers in trying to identify the individual Brooks inaccurately assumed it was the Minor Leaguer Harry Brooks who was active during the time. Cusick has also made the suggestion that in future, included in Mauer's career notes, reference is made that he played, partly or otherwise, under the name of Brooks.
Cusick and myself are engaged in ongoing discussions in respect of the 1889 Davenport team photo depicting the Kappel brothers and we are looking into the possibility of the names instead of being listed left to right are actually right to left, updates to be provided. This would mean that the missing player identified, Charlie Gassner, is actually a photo of Sam Nichol, not unlikely, that would mean that Gassner is actually the player listed as Sam Nichol.
One of many other consequences of this review would mean that the player listed at the bottom row to be Jerry Harrington is located at the extreme right not left, currently listed as Chuck Lauer and vice versa. I have to say from a personal viewpoint that the player to the extreme left to me appears more to resemble Lauer and the player to the extreme right appears more to resemble Harrington.