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Paddy Livingston 1901
The fellow in the Red Sox uniform sure looks like him. It's a small shot heavily distorted by digitalizing but below, this is Livingston in the A's uniform during the 1911 World Series (with Rube Marquard).
Player biographies of the era are ludicrously incomplete (I've found two just now about 1920: one says he had begun to work for the Cleveland Bridge Authority that year, another says he was in the minors). More importantly, major league coaching records are even worse.
Livingston appears nowhere in any official list of coaches but SABR's biography says he was back with the A's as "bullpen catcher" in 1919 and it is plausible he might have had a similar position with the Red Sox around the same time. This could also have been from a Boston old-timers' event (they started having them, off and on, in the late 19th Century) with Livingston in a borrowed uniform.
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