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Originally Posted by RUKen
I appreciate the acknowledgement for the IDs, but I had not provided a name for the player on the bottom row, far right. I do not think that he looks like Phil Reccius. I acknowledge that Reccius is the only other player named on the roster dated April 3rd, 1887, but I think that someone else may have been with the team later that spring long enough to be assigned a uniform.
Reccius / Bottom Row Far Right
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You are correct: I added the Reccius identification. I amended the post above to note that.
Reccius was with the club until mid-May. If the photo was taken at the start of the season, it seems odd that he wouldn't be in it. I haven't done a dive into the roster to see how it changed after that point.
Update: Bill White did not arrive in Louisville until April 19, per the Courier-Journal that afternoon. He had not signed a contract at that point. This was one day after the first game of the season. The photo must have been taken after this point.
The original post on net54baseball was a photo of the photo, taken at an angle. I think this distorted some of the perspective, such that the player's faces look wider than they were. If you squeeze the photo slightly, you get a better match (IMO).
For what it is worth, all of the other IDs look good to me.