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Gene Bailey
There were 54 men who played for both the Boston Braves and the Boston Red Sox, but in all of baseball history, there was only one who played for both teams in the same year. That was Gene Bailey, and the year was 1920. He hit .083 for the Braves and after he was purchased by the Red Sox that May, he hit .230.
Overall, Gene played five years in the majors from his five games for the A's in 1917 to his final MLB games for Brooklyn in 1924. He returned to Texas where he raised a single adopted child. His grandson elaborates: "Mom was the only child. She was actually adopted. During the Depression, someone knew Gene was a ballplayer and actually left my mom on the front porch of Gene’s house when she was a baby, thus hoping she would be taken care of. Gene’s wife took her in and they ended up adopting her.” - SABR
I looked at three pictures in making the facegen, including a later year one that was straight-on from the 1930 Rice yearbook where he coached for a time. The Rice pic showed his face wider than the side-shots would have otherwise made the facegen. The photo found on in the Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack thread was the one I ultimately used for the actual facegen, however, as I think it got the core features down best.
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