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Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan
Any further information in respect of the team shown and the identification of the players is most welcome.
Possibly this is a composite of either the 1869 or 1870 Washington Olympics. The player in the centre is suggested to be a future leading baseball executive :- Nick Young.
A box score from an Olympics game from 1869 reveals the following lineup :- 1. Force 3b, 2. Reach ss, 3. Malone c, 4. Young rf, 5. Leach p, 6. Robinson lf, 7. Miller 1b, 8. Hurley 2b, 9. Emmett cf
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Per Reed Howard, the following players were with the Olympics in 1869:
Barrett (5 g), Billings, Denison, Davy Force (26 g), Dick Hurley (8 g), Ed Leech (26 g), Fergy Malone (25 g), Harry McLean (22 g), William Miller (7 g), Bob Reach (24 g), Val Robinson (25 g), Michael Urell (16 g), Eddie Woods (15 g), Samuel Yeatman (5 g), and Nick Young (26 g). There are no dates for whom played when. Emmett is a new name, it seems.