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Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan
The Transactional page on B-R indicates that Ponder may have left the team before Bigbee was acquired but sometimes a player with a team in Spring Training subsequently joins a Major League team after not making the starting day roster.
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Elmer Ponder was traded to the Cubs on July 1st (source: Pittsburgh Post, July 2, 1921). Lyle Bigbee had been in spring training with the Philadelphia Athletics. He did not make the team that year (he had pitched for them in 1920), and he began the season with the minor league team in Newark, NJ. He was purchased by the Pirates in late July and joined the team on the 26th (source: Pittsburgh Press, July 27, 1921). So, Ponder and Bigbee cannot both be in the photo.
Phil Morrison, Floyd "Rip" Wheeler, and Bill Hughes were not with the Pirates in spring training in 1921, according to newspaper accounts.
The following pitchers were in training that spring, but were not included among the initial IDs by UKBaseballFan: Karl Eberhard, Frank Herbst, John "Bonnie" Hollingsworth, Bill Lengquist, and George Tice.