Sir Lurksalot photopack (Negro League players)

[Penale52]

A photo of Howard Ross was posted to his Find a Grave memorial in 2019.

[pholmer]

I don't see a place where all the Negro League players' photos can be downloaded at once. Is there such a file to download?

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by pholmer

I don't see a place where all the Negro League players' photos can be downloaded at once. Is there such a file to download?

Don't know of one.

[caribeño]

Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

Any type of relations to ELIO Chacon?

Pelayo , Jr was his brother . both sons of Pelayo , Sr . also a player in the Negro Leagues .

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by caribeño

Pelayo , Jr was his brother . both sons of Pelayo , Sr . also a player in the Negro Leagues .

Please note that I've modified the text accompanying the photo of Pelayo Jr. on page 140 of this thread. The photo is indeed of Pelayo Jr., Elio's brother. It's not clear to me that Pelayo Jr. really was a Negro Leagues player, although he is still listed that way by seamheads.com. His Negro Leagues career would have taken place before he was born. He was born in 1933. See his baseball-reference.com entry:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/b...Chac%C3%B3n_Jr.

[cinemaodyssey]

I didn't see this one on Seamheads. Binder played several seasons with the Homestead Grays and this image was taken from the 1935 team photo that was printed in the Indianapolis Recorder on 6/8/1935. The identifications in that photo helped to find Binder in a recent Hake's auction pamphlet.

[Cusick]

Floyd Meshad was the co-owner of the Birmingham Black Barons in 1955. The photo was discovered by SABR member Chuck McGill as part of a series of photos taken at a Negro Leagues reunion in 1995.

[Cusick]

Woodward was not a Negro Leagues player, but he had a huge impact on Negro Leagues history. He was the owner of the Birmingham Coal Barons, a white minor league team, and he used his money to build the legendary Rickwood Field in Birmingham.

He is shown here in a Coal Barons uniform. The photo is from the same series of shots as the 1995 Negro League Reunion cited above.

[Cusick]

A photo of Layton has been posted on this thread previously, but it showed him as an older man. This photo shows him as a player for the New York Black Yankees. He pitched for the Indianapolis Clowns in 1954, and then for the New York Black Yankees in 1955.

The photo is from a video on the website abc11.com.

[Penale52]

Outfielder Bobby Robinson with the 1954 Detroit Stars. (Lansing State Journal, June 11, 1954).

[Penale52]

Outfielder Joe Montgomery with the 1954 Detroit Stars. (Lansing State Journal, June 11, 1954).

[Penale52]

Originally Posted by Cusick

James "Jim" Jenkins was an outfielder with the Indianapolis Clowns and Detroit Stars during the 1951-54 period. He is shown here in the uniform of the Indianapolis Clowns. This is a different player from James "Pee Wee" Jenkins, who was a pitcher.

Here is Jimmy Jenkins in a Detroit Stars uniform. (Lansing State Journal, June 11, 1954)

[Cusick]

George Green, Jr., was an outfielder with the Indianapolis Clowns in 1959 and 1960. He was born on 9/23/1936 and died on 2/16/2023. This is his obit photo.

[cinemaodyssey]

As near as I can tell, almost all of these players pictured are missing Negro League players. This photo was printed in the 6/4/1937 edition of the St. Louis Argus.

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey

As near as I can tell, almost all of these players pictured are missing Negro League players. This photo was printed in the 6/4/1937 edition of the St. Louis Argus.

A great find, cinemaodyssey! I count nine players who were previously missing. They are Willie V. Davis, Luther Gilyard, Robert Griffin, Joe Burke, Claude Miller, Johnny Reed, Clarence "Lemon" Lamar, Bill Carter, and Les Pearson. A tenth, Tommy V. Johnson, was posted previously, but seems to have disappeared from this thread, so that's another helpful one in this group photo.

[cinemaodyssey]

Here's another guy I had no picture for. He was pictured in the 7/2/1937 edition of The St. Louis Argus upon his debut with the St. Louis Stars.

[cinemaodyssey]

In what has proved a gold-mine lately, The St. Louis Argus also printed a photo of Joe T. Taylor with the St. Louis Stars on 7/2/1937.

[cinemaodyssey]

One more from a great team photo of rare players is William Walker, backup outfielder for the 1937 St. Louis Stars. From the same photo as before, printed in the 7/2/1937 edition of The St. Louis Argus.

[cinemaodyssey]

Digging through the St. Louis Argus, I found a photo of Eddie Holtz (printed as "Holt") in a retrospective the paper did about old St. Louis Giants players. I did not previously have a photo of him. The article was printed on 5/7/1937.

[cinemaodyssey]

Barnes is pictured in the 8/23/1935 edition of The St. Louis Argus. I had no picture of him previously.