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Jerry Kane 1890
I think the original image came from the New York Clipper. Shown below is the image of Jerry Kane from the New York Clipper of February 21, 1891 as published in a book called THE COMPLETE NEW YORK CLIPPER BASEBALL BIOGRAPHIES.
Baseball encyclopedias used to list Jerry Kane as William Jeremiah Kane. That's why the image below shows him as W. Kane. The New York Clipper article that accompanied the image clearly mentioned his having been with the 1890 St. Louis Browns and even presented a few stats for the 8 games he played for them.
Somewhere along the line, the powers-that-be changed Jerry Kane's formal name to Jeremiah Joseph Kane. He is listed that way in both Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet. I don't think that invalidates the image, but I'm presenting what I know about the situation for interested parties to ponder.
Baseball-Reference.com appears to be using the same image for Jerry Kane as UKBaseballFan posted to this forum back in 2007.
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