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Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan
Thanks for the confirmation in respect of Bill Tobin.
I query the identifications on the 1880 Troy photo. I would suggest the following below.
Bill Tobin, Ed Caskin, Jake Evans, Tim Keefe
John Cassidy, Bill Holbert, Bob Ferguson, Pete Gillespie, Roger Connor
Mickey Welch, Buttercup Dickerson
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UK, Thank you for posting these corrections. I erred big time in simply posting the names as provided to me by the source who gave me the photo years ago. I did not do the photo comparisons to see if the identifications were correct. I have now at least done the photo comparisons for those names where your identifications differed from those I posted.
Top row: You switched Tim Keefe and Ed Caskin. I agree that the switch in names makes them look more like the actual players. Furthermore, Caskin was 5'9.5" and Keefe was 5'10.5", so that height alignment also makes sense. You also inserted Jake Evans' name between them. I agree that the player between them looks like Jake rather than Ed Cogswell. Jake was 5'8".
Middle row: Small height differences are more difficult to distinguish when people are seated, but the fellow at the far right was clearly a tall man. Roger Connor was 6'3" whereas Mickey Welch was 5'8". All the photos I've seen of Roger show him with a mustache. All the photos I've seen of Mickey portray him as clean shaven. That's clearly Roger. The naming of Pat Gillespie was simply a mistake. There was no such name on the team. It had to be Pete Gillespie.
Bottom row: This brings us to Buttercup. This change was the most difficult for me to accept, because I had found the deadballera.com website a reliable place for photos in the past. But it's hard to imagine that the Troy team photo wouldn't have contained Mickey Welch, and the player on the left certainly looks like clean-shaven Mickey. We've already established that the player on the right wasn't Jake Evans, because he was in the top row. I agree that he looks like your two photos of Buttercup. Yesterday, I didn't know where your sepia-tone photo of Buttercup came from. I've found one version of it on the website of the Eastern Shore Baseball HOF. I have to presume that they identified it correctly.
So we don't have any disagreement here. Thank you again for your efforts.