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Originally Posted by Patsy Tebeau
Actually it could be pretty much any ballclub called the Olympics. According to Bruce Allardice's research there were at least 90 clubs called the Olympics throughout the US in the pre-mlb era.
I think the guy pictured 2 down from top left kind of resembles Davy Force, definitely the eyes but I'm not entirely sure about the rest (the eyebrows look very different and the nose doesn't look exact but who knows if its photo quality or whatever).
If it is in fact Force, that would be a definite way to tell since he was with the Washington Olympics from 1867 to 1871.
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Comparison of the player extracted from the Olympics composite (left) to the player identified as Force in the 1882 Buffalo team (right).