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Merkle923 · 02-22-2015, 12:02 PM

Street & Smith's and vintage Press Guides. Have shelves full of them. Spring Training rosters can largely be established back into the '20s - it's the non-roster guys who are the crapshoot.

As Bruhert suggests, if you were Rule 5, you had to go onto the roster, so you'll be in the Street & Smith and the Press Guide even if you never appear in the organization. And everybody else will be listed in the team "affiliations" pages at Baseball-Reference.Com - so there's easy hunting.

There is one fairly safe rule of thumb with the Spring Training photography Topps did prior to, say, 1992. They limited themselves to guys in big league camp, roster or non-roster invited. But by 1980 the scourge of information-seekers began to appear: Players Brought Over From Minor League Camp. And that's when the ID nightmare truly began.

02-22-2015, 12:02 PM	#24618
Merkle923 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,185	Spring Traininh Rosters Street & Smith's and vintage Press Guides. Have shelves full of them. Spring Training rosters can largely be established back into the '20s - it's the non-roster guys who are the crapshoot. As Bruhert suggests, if you were Rule 5, you had to go onto the roster, so you'll be in the Street & Smith and the Press Guide even if you never appear in the organization. And everybody else will be listed in the team "affiliations" pages at Baseball-Reference.Com - so there's easy hunting. There is one fairly safe rule of thumb with the Spring Training photography Topps did prior to, say, 1992. They limited themselves to guys in big league camp, roster or non-roster invited. But by 1980 the scourge of information-seekers began to appear: Players Brought Over From Minor League Camp. And that's when the ID nightmare truly began.