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Originally Posted by scott1964
Looking for a Robert Ferguson picture, played 1939 and 1940 for Superior (Northern League) and Allentown (Interstate League).
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I spent a fair amount of time on this, but could not come up with a photo. I think this is Lefty Bob Ferguson, who hails from Rock Island, IL. He was a semi-pro pitcher with a team called the Enright Coalers of Rock Island when he signed with the NY Giants in July of 1938. They sent him to Cedar Rapids of the Three Eye League, though Baseball-reference.com doesn't show it. There were many hits on his name during his 1940 season with Allentown, and supposedly he was going to the Boston Bees at the end of it. I lost his trail after that. Tried to find his Sporting News contract card, but there doesn't seem to be one. There are several other Robert Fergusons in that file, but not one who was with Superior and Allentown.