[Chickazoola]

I've been out of the image hunting game for a bit, but took another crack at my most wanted white whale yesterday, Shorty Gallagher, who played briefly with Cleveland in 1901.

Gallagher, most commonly known as "Chubby" rather than "Shorty" was a Detroiter who had a pretty long career dating from 1891 to 1903 or so in various minor and semipro leagues. Lots of notes on him, but he very seldom stayed in one place long enough to appear in a team photo. He was also the only player in the history of the Cleveland AL franchise with no known photo.

In late July 1902, when the Michigan State League folded, he was brought to New Orleans by Abner Powell for a trial along with another player named Adam Vogt. Since that paper featured photos of players pretty regularly, I figured there was a chance, and I had scoured the paper years ago, but no luck.

Then I had a flash of insight to just search for Vogt's name and voila, he was pictured alongside Gallagher in the August 3, 1902 New Orleans Times Picayune. The issue was that Gallagher was misspelled Gallegher in that day's paper, and he also didn't play in that day's game, so the name only appeared once on the page and only misspelled.

Kind thanks to Cusick for improving the image quality.