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Old 04-09-2022, 05:03 PM   #883
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Adam Wirth 1875 Missing Umpire

Adam Wirth played for the Empire baseball club of St. Louis, as indicated by multiple newspaper and book accounts.

There is a book titled The Origins of Baseball in St. Louis, with an image of the 1867 Empires on the cover. While the image caption is a bit blurry, Wirth is labeled as the man standing third from left.

There is also a mention in one of his obituaries that his image once appeared in Harper's Weekly, but it doesn't give a year and I have been unable to locate it using various search tools.
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