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Originally Posted by Cusick
The only image I know about for Frank Freund, who has always been known in the baseball annals as Lawrence "Frank" Freund, was found by Marc Okkonen in the 1911 Spalding Guide on page 256 in the photo of the Lima team in the Ohio State League. The photo of him on the baseball-reference website looks like it could have come from a Spalding Guide.
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Thank you for that reference. Near as I can tell, these are two different individuals. Lawrence Freund is the major leaguer, coming out of Jeffersonville, Indiana but spending a ton of time in Louisville. He was a stocky and short-tempered man who was constantly running into the law and spent time in jail in 1896 for threatening a police officer with a baseball bat.
The player pictured in Baseball-Reference in the 1911 Lima team is named "Frank B. Friend" and I don't see a connection between the two. Unless someone else has a picture I think Freund might have to go on the Missing Player list.