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Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey
I was able to locate a photo for Ike Samuels, who played for many teams and under many aliases, in the late 1890s. He was pictured here, alas not very clearly, in the 6/61897 edition of The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. He was a notoriously poor fielder and his miscue-laden tenure with the 1895 Browns was remembered in St. Louis papers for decades afterwards. All that being said, he was proud of his brief time in the majors and reportedly stopped by a newspaper office in New York in the early 1960s to respond in person to an article about still-living players from the 19th century.
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Great find cinemaodyssey. Here's a drawing of Ike from the 8-17-1895 The Kentucky Post.