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Originally Posted by Merkle923
I don't get the process by which these images of Miranda could possibly be identified as Horacio Pina or Vicente Romo.
Firstly, the player is clearly shown with "Seattle" on his uniform, and his uniform is clearly in the style of the '60s California Angels. The Angels operated their PCL farm club in Seattle - the Seattle Angels - only from 1965 through 1968. Therefore the player had to be with Seattle in a relatively short period of baseball history.
Neither Pina nor Romo ever played for Seattle. Neither was even in the Angels farm system during the time Seattle was in the PCL, thus wiping out the tiny chance that either player wore the uniform during minor league spring training or some kind of tryout. So why would you guess either of them? Because the player looks Latino?
Even if that's the logic, If you go to Baseball-Reference you can look at your leisure at the name of every Seattle Angel who ever existed. You'll find about a dozen of Hispanic descent (none of whom are Pina or Romo), nearly all of whom can be readily identified - and identified as being neither Pina nor Romo - by Google Image search.
If you eliminate all the impossibilities by diligent research, a couple of possibilities left over by the process of elimination can be useful and the penultimate step towards player identification. Just pulling a couple of names out of thin air - without checking to see if they'd ever played for the team depicted - helps nobody.
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It was a careless, stupid error on my part. I called up the Portland roster on Baseball-Reference instead of Seattle. I simply got my 68 PCL teams mixed up while trying to do too much in the middle of the night. No excuses; one more reason I am happy this project is darn near over for me. Consider me chastised.