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Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan
Yes, good point about Ed Cogswell not representing the Trojans in 1881. This, however, increases the likelihood that the team photo was taken in Spring Training 1881. Height listings in B-R should not be taken as 100% accurate, like image identification.
Here is a colorized image of the team photo. The player previously identified as Dickerson is wrong, the player is Hall of Famer Mickey Welch.
Top Row
Cogswell, Cassidy, Evans, Ewing
Middle Row
Gillespie, Hankinson, Ferguson, Caskin, Connor
Ground
Welch, Holbert
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What happened to the eyes???
Anyways thank you for identifying the guy in the front as Welch. I had seen this one labelled as Dickerson in just about every source but never thought it looked like him. It would seem that this particular team photo had a lot wrong with the initial identifications.