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Veltman26 · 01-10-2018, 03:31 PM

The first words of this post are "Unless the primary ID is mistaken" - and there's absolutely no reason to believe that the primary ID is correct. I'm not at all convinced that the baserunner is Merkle; it looks more like another 1908 Giants rookie named Buck Herzog, which would explain why Conlon didn't bother to identify him. And Chance is holding the baserunner on, which would make perfect sense if it's not the Merkle game. Where is the evidence that Conlon was photographing this famous game? Not in the photo, that's for sure. Everything that follows from this extraordinarily shaky assumption falls apart immediately if it's a regular season game.

This alleged discovery is a textbook example of "confirmation bias" - the tendency to search for, interpret, and favor new evidence in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses. I agree that it would be extremely cool if this were indeed Fred Merkle, but unfortunately, all of our overheated fantasies can't be true!

01-10-2018, 03:31 PM	#31895
Veltman26 Bat Boy Join Date: Jan 2018 Posts: 3	Wrong 1908 Giants rookie - that's Herzog, not Merkle The first words of this post are "Unless the primary ID is mistaken" - and there's absolutely no reason to believe that the primary ID is correct. I'm not at all convinced that the baserunner is Merkle; it looks more like another 1908 Giants rookie named Buck Herzog, which would explain why Conlon didn't bother to identify him. And Chance is holding the baserunner on, which would make perfect sense if it's not the Merkle game. Where is the evidence that Conlon was photographing this famous game? Not in the photo, that's for sure. Everything that follows from this extraordinarily shaky assumption falls apart immediately if it's a regular season game. This alleged discovery is a textbook example of "confirmation bias" - the tendency to search for, interpret, and favor new evidence in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses. I agree that it would be extremely cool if this were indeed Fred Merkle, but unfortunately, all of our overheated fantasies can't be true!