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Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey
I found Merrill pictured here as a member of the 1887 Fort Wayne baseball team featured in the March 31, 1923 Fort Wayne Sentinel. Many other big league players were also on this roster.
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As a follow up, the photo is most likely of the 1883 club, based on newspaper coverage of the club. There was no 1887 Fort Wayne club, so the newspaper had it wrong.
There is an outside chance that another missing player, Phil Coridan, might be in the photo, but he only seems to have been with the club in 1882.