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Originally Posted by RUKen
Craig Brown, the illustrator of Threads of Our Game, is meticulous about including sources that support the uniform illustrations. These can be excerpts from contemporary newspaper articles or photos that have been carefully confirmed as showing a particular team. (Group photos are best for that purpose.)
There have been many photos and tintypes of old baseball players offered for auction or on ebay, with the claims that they are images of major league teams or well-known major league players, that have been debunked on sites like this one. In the 19th century and early 20th century, it was a standard practice for amateur teams to have at least one group photo taken each year, and especially in the 19th century, it was common for individual amateur players to go to a photo studio in uniform to get a keepsake of themselves. Most of the early baseball photos that turn up in estate sales and antique shops do not have famous players or teams in them.
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I am aware of that. In fact the whole reason I thought this image was an Athletics one was due to the fact that it was listed on a few 19th century baseball sites with that caption as well as randomly on getty images with the same caption so i figured due to so many sites saying it was the case then i didnt think much of it. I always like it whenever stuff like this gets noticed so that way we can have it corrected.