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Originally Posted by Patsy Tebeau
It's possible that Emmett could have been a 1-game sub or something maybe. And I knew Robinson would've had to been Val! Only thing is we don't know which one he is in the picture and likely won't since we have nothing to go off of for that :/
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I think there is reason to be positive.
A major breakthrough was CinemaOddyssey's identification of Nick Young which indicated the 1869-70 Washington Olympics. Identification of Force confirmed this and then as you suggest the proposed identification of Malone narrows it down to 1869.
Urell could be a noted figure in Military history and an amazing color portrait is attached.
The 9 players shown in the image are probably Force (3b) , Bob Reach (ss) , Malone (c), Young (rf) , Ed Leech (pitcher), Val Robinson (lf), Eddie Woods (2b) , Michael Urell (cf) and Harry McLean (1b).
Incidentally Michael Urell's full name is Michael Emmett Urell, and I believe normally referred to as Emmett not Michael, that will clear up the puzzling 'new' name in the box score. Is that him at 4 o'clock in the image?
Here is an image of McLean, again later in life. We have no contemporary images for Bob Reach but there are plenty of his brother Al. Here is one which appears to be a close match to the player at 2 o'clock in the composite.
Both McLean and Urell officiated as umpires.
Images of Leech, Robinson and Woods may exist in team images from the period which are unnamed. Now we have a reference point in the composite to try and match with.