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Originally Posted by Cusick
Prewinter, I'd appreciate your responding to a couple of questions.
1) On what basis are you saying that your list contains the correct names?
2) If you're curious about possible names on the back of the original, would you contact the Neville Museum in Green Bay to see what they have to say about it and then report back to this forum?
Thanks.
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I just reached out to the museum to see if they can clarify if the names in the caption are on the photo itself.
I started looking into the photo because I was hoping it included Charles Krehmeyer and Harry Burquin, both of whom played for Green Bay that season. I went through newspapers from 1891 from Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh and a couple of other places, looking at box score and game articles. In early August, the owner of the Green Bay club bought the club from Terre Haute and cut everyone from before that except Ernie Beam. The new players are listed in the Green Bay Press-Gazette on August 4, 1891; Baseball-Reference lists the full names for most of them. Scouring articles from 1891 confirmed all of the players listed played with Green Bay through most of August (after they transferred to Green Bay) and into September.