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Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey
I'm reasonably happy with Reilly being the player in the back row, far right. Also, I realize you're placing an early timeframe for this photo but if that's not Harry Steinfeldt in the back row, second from the left then he had a doppelganger.
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Harry Steinfeldt played his first game with Fort Worth on August 21, and the season ended on September 3. Players who appeared in games during that span included Reilly, McAllister, Stanley, McFarland, Elsey, Duke Jantzen, Mike Lawrence, Frank Weikart, William McCormick, Joseph Broderick and Brownie Chamberlain. With Steinfeldt, that would be 12 players, although Chamberlain only played in the final two games of the season.
The photo could also have been taken later in September, during a 15 game post-season series between Fort Worth and Dallas. Fourteen players total played for Fort Worth during the series, including Joseph Bammert and Charles Meyers from the Galveston club and Fred Brott and catcher William 'Klondike' Douglas from Sherman. Elsey and Reilly stopped playing about two thirds of the way through the series, and Kid Nance joined the club after a few games.
One of the key questions is who is the person in the black shirt. Identifying this person (either the team captain or the manager, one assumes) could set the time frame for the photo.
Following up on this line of thinking, below is a photo of Klondike Douglas (from Baseball Reference). I don't see anyone that looks like him in the photo, which would suggest the photo wasn't taken during the post-season series between Fort Worth and Dallas.