1887 Louisville
This photo was posted on net54baseball with a collection of other photos, which reportedly belonged to Ice Box Chamberlain. (He is in all of them, which tracks.) It is of the 1887 Louisville club, probably taken in the spring. Identifications were make by RUKen. I'm posting it here so I can find it in the future. All of the players were identified as on the club in the Louisville Courier-Journal in April.
(I think there is some distortion in the scan, as some of the players' heads seem too wide. There are zoomed in scans in the thread on net54baseball.)
The photos posted there also include one of the Hamilton Clippers of 1885 and the Crandall club (of Buffalo, NY) of 1889.
Identifications courtesy of RUKen:
Top Row (L-R): Amos Cross, Jimmy "Chicken" Wolf, Paul Cook, John Kerins, Lave Cross, Hub Collins, Phil Reccius.
Middle Row (L-R): Pete Browning, William Veach, Guy Hecker, John Kelly, Tom "Toad" Ramsey, Elton Chamberlain, Joe Werrick.
Bottom Row (L-R): Reddy Mack, Joe Neale, Bill White.
Amended 8/28/2024: Based on discussions below and offline, the assignments have been changed. These changes are reflected above, and included moving Bill White to front row right, Phil Reccius to back row right, and Elton Chamberlain to middle row, second from the right, indicated in red above.
Last edited by prewinter; 08-28-2024 at 11:50 PM.
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