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Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey
This photo could also easily be the Olympics of Philadelphia and possibly earlier than 1869. It was featured on Heritage Auctions a few years ago (in which I was one of the bidders) and sadly contained no identification in any way to which city it represented. Any identifications made so far have been purely speculative in nature until we dig anything else up.
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Actually it could be pretty much any ballclub called the Olympics. According to Bruce Allardice's research there were at least 90 clubs called the Olympics throughout the US in the pre-mlb era.
I think the guy pictured 2 down from top left kind of resembles Davy Force, definitely the eyes but I'm not entirely sure about the rest (the eyebrows look very different and the nose doesn't look exact but who knows if its photo quality or whatever).
If it is in fact Force, that would be a definite way to tell since he was with the Washington Olympics from 1867 to 1871.