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Old 07-03-2018, 04:05 AM   #32530
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Tom O'Hara

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Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey View Post
This is the best image of O'Hara I have ever seen. Not coincidentally, it's done by my favorite baseball photographer Carl Horner. You can purchase the real deal over at RMY Auctions.
Until now I had always thought that this was an image of Bill O'Hara as depicted in baseball reference and indeed our facepack.

Both Tom O'Hara and Bill O'Hara played for St. Louis. So your post prompted me to do some checking to investigate that the images in our facepack for Tom and Bill O'Hara were the wrong way round.

Check 1 was the uniforms when the respective O'Hara's played for St.Louis. The uniform shown is representative of the 1906 and 1907 team when Tom played not the 1910 team when Bill played. 1 vote for Tom.

Check 2 was to check Bill O'Hara's image on the 1909 New York Giants composite. The image seemed to more closely resemble that we wrongly have of Tom O'Hara rather than your posted version of Tom. 2nd vote for your posted image being Tom and that the images are the wrong way around in the facepack. .

Also attached is a correct image of Bill O'Hara in a St.Louis uniform.

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