I've used the search function on these forums. I've looked over BB-reference too. I must be missing something easy but I can't find the player's historical ids. With the universal face-gen file (that I have installed) that does not help.
I did read about finding the BB-ref id (perryge01) at the end of the player url which, of course doesn't work. However doing another google I linked to Gerald Perry and with this link the code at the end of the url is the historical id. (perry-002ger). I have no idea how or why the second url came up? IF there is a way to force this url instead of default I'll have my answer.
What I'm trying to do is to "fix" my HOF players that are missing pics. This is an imported league started in v4 so the retired players have no id's of any kind on their editor tab. By searching the universal face-gen thread I did find Ken Griffey Jr and his historical id, typed it in, and it worked like a charm. I could continue to try searching that thread for other names but if they don't have an individual post in this thread I'll come up empty.
Long winded way of asking what is probably obvious
Where does one find historical ids?