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Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey
This photo has been floating around the internet for many years purporting to be the 1889 Columbus franchise in spring training. The uniform styles and newspaper descriptions prove that this pictures the 1888 team. I'd greatly like to whittle down the player ID's on this because there is a 100% chance that Pit Gilman (a missing player) is among the players pictured.
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The photo includes 14 players plus the manager, which seems to be the number of players with the club in late April, 1888 when the season started. Those players were:
George Backer, James Curry (Player-manager), Pit Gilman, Robert Hamilton, Jack Handiboe, Jim Handiboe, Carl McVey, John Munyan, Joe Neale, Jerry O'Brien, Charles Pike, Billy Rourke, Ernest Smith, Patrick Welsh, and Buck West.
Of these, six seem to have been with the club all season: Gilman, Hamilton, both Handiboes, Munyan and Smith.
The club seems to have had no more than 14 players in September, including the manager Arnold, who took over for Curry. Pete Sommers was on the club at the end of the season, so I can see if he might be in the photo, and that could help nail the time frame.