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Charles Johnston 1936 (?)
This is from an RMY Auction from quite awhile ago - I can find a google image on a search but no link to the shot. It was Opening Day 1936, and was, as I recall, identified as umpires Johnston, Summers and Owens, Coach Bill Webb, managers Jimmy Dykes of the White Sox and Mickey Cochrane of the Tigers.
I'm not sure if the umpire IDs were meant to be definitive, but the boxes show Brick Owens worked the plate that day (and was injured) and the figure obscured by Cochrane seems to be an ump with his chest protector on the ground by his feet. The animated ump seemingly shouting a point about Grounds Rules is certainly Bill Summers.
That would make the figure on the right Johnston, who lasted only two years as an A.L. ump. I'm not certain that he's a perfect facial match to the other visuals we've seen of Johnston but Owens was beefier-faced and far less stern-looking.
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