Sir Lurksalot photopack (Negro League players)

[Cusick]

George Walter Ball, P/OF, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago Leland Giants. The photo of Walter previously posted on this thread showed him with the St. Cloud, MN, team.

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Albert "Hamp" Gillard, P, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago American Giants.

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Robert James "Bobby" Anderson, SS/2B, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago Giants. The photo of Robert posted previously on this thread showed him in an unidentified uniform. However, I have now concluded that the previous photo was a head shot from this same photo, so the earlier photo also showed him with the Chicago Giants.

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Stanford “Jambo” Jackson, OF/SS/3B, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago American Giants. This is an improved photo of Stanford over the one previously posted on this thread.

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Robert "Bob" or "Ruby" or "Jim" Miller, 3B/SS, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago American Giants. This player is a bit of a puzzle. Seamheads.com calls this player Robert "Bob" or "Rudy" Miller and indicates that he played for the Birmingham Black Barons (1923) and Memphis Red Sox (1924 and 1928). Yet Seamheads displays a head shot of this same 1927 Chicago American Giants photo for their record display on Robert Miller. That's their only tie to the American Giants. The caption for the 1927 American Giants team photo calls the player "Jim Miller." But I can't find any record of a Jim Miller in the Negro Leagues, so I've concluded that he is the same guy as Robert Miller.

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Elbert C. "Pop" or "Pops" Turner, 3B/SS, is shown in the uniform of the Cole's American Giants. The photo of Pops posted previously on this thread showed him as a coach of a college team.

[Jabez54]

Cusick ... That Robert Miller look more like Stanford Jackson ... I have Jackson previous pic, laughing exactly like Miller is doing ... is there an error??

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Originally Posted by Jabez54

Cusick ... That Robert Miller look more like Stanford Jackson ... I have Jackson previous pic, laughing exactly like Miller is doing ... is there an error??

Yes, there is an error somewhere. The first Stanford Jackson photo I posted (p. 102) on this thread was indeed from the same 1927 Chicago American Giants team photo as the Robert Miller photo. The original is at the Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown. I got the Stanford Jackson identification from the 1992 book PICTORIAL NEGRO LEAGUE LEGENDS, by Robert Retort. The Jim Miller identification for the same team photo was given in the year 2000 book BLACK BASEBALL IN CHICAGO, by Larry Lester, Sammy Miller, and Dick Clark. As I indicated for the Robert Miller entry, the Seamheads.com website, which is current, uses the extraction of the photo and names the player Robert "Bob" Miller. So I think the 1992 Stanford Jackson identification is out-of-date now, and I've changed my original entry.

I've attached another image of Stanford Jackson. The quality of these images makes it difficult to do comparisons, but to my eyes, there is a difference in the ear structures between the two images on this page for Stanford Jackson and the one for Robert Miller. I could certainly be wrong about that, but I think they are two different players.

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Jesse Sharon Williams, 1B/OF, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago American Giants. Jesse was with the American Giants in 1944. Previously, I have posted photos of Jesse Williams and Jesse H. Williams. This is a different Jesse Williams.

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Lloyd "Ducky" Davenport, OF, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago American Giants. The photo of Lloyd posted previously on this thread showed him with a Cuban team.

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John "Johnny" or "Lefty" Smith, OF/1B/P, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago American Giants. According to James Riley's Encyclopedia, John Smith was with the American Giants from 1943 through 1945. I'm going by Riley's account on this one, as John Smith is not listed in the Clark/Lester Negro Baseball Register and the Seamheads.com database doesn't run as late as the 1940's. The photo is from 1944.

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Ralph A. "Pepper" Wyatt, SS, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago American Giants. This is an improved photo over the one I posted previously of Ralph.

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Joseph James "Joe" Buckner, P, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago American Giants.

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T. R. "Ted" Strong, OF/INF, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago American Giants. I think this is an improved photo for Ted over the one previously posted.

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John Ritchey, C, is shown in the uniform of the Chicago American Giants. It's not a great shot of John, but it's the first one I've seen of him in a confirmed Negro League uniform. The others have been in minor league uniforms or unidentified.

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Arthur Lee "Artie" Wilson, SS, is shown in a Birmingham Black Barons uniform. This is an improved photo of Artie in a Black Barons uniform over the one previously posted on this thread.

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Oops! Duplicate.

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Earl Richardson was a shortstop with the 1943 Newark Eagles. He is shown here with the Great Lakes Blue Jackets of the Great Lakes Naval Base of World War II.

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George Board, 1B, is shown in the uniform of the Indianapolis ABCs. George was with the ABCs from 1907 to 1913.

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Jose Borges was a second baseman with the All-Cubans in 1904 and 1905. He is shown here in an unidentified uniform.