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Originally Posted by Cusick
Thanks, Prewinter, for posting the photo of Charlie Hodnutt. Made me question whether the image of Hodnutt previously recognized is erroneous. Baseball-reference.com displays it. So did the ST. LOUIS CARDINALS ENCYCLOPEDIA, by Bob Broeg and Jerry Vickery, which was published in 1998. I think the image came from a collection of St. Louis Browns (AA) images published in the Feb. 6, 1892 edition of The Sporting News, on page 4. The caption for the image was W. Hodnett. The Sporting News article was reflecting on the history of the major league St. Louis Browns, and so it was reflecting on players who had been with it. It's possible that the first initial, W, was just a mistake in presenting the image of Hodnett, but he certainly doesn't look like the same guy as the fellow you posted.
The image of Charles Hodnett on the left is from the Sporting News of Feb. 6, 1892. The image on the right is from the ST. LOUIS CARDINALS ENCYCLOPEDIA -- much better quality.
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Here are all three side-by-side. The sketches don't seem that far apart, IMO. although the face seems wider in the sketch from the newspaper (far right) as compared to the sketch from the Encyclopedia (far left). I wish I could see the ear in the photo better... I need to see if I can find a better version of the photo.
Interesting that they all show basically the same angle. It makes me wonder if the photo were the common source for both sketches, with a little artistic license thrown in.
Charlie Hodnett died in 1890 (at the age of 30), so by the time the sketch was done in 1892, all there was for a reference was a photo.