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Old 08-25-2025, 10:59 AM   #498
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I doubt we will get much on this but I am wondering if anyone has since been able to find match faces to names with the Atlantics players. In order from the top (players only) is Dickey Pearce, Unknown, Charlie Smith, Unknown, and Peter O'Brien. The entire bottom row is unknown. There is a list of names of the players on this team but which one is which is a mystery. The unidentified players are: John Price, John Oliver, Joe Oliver, Tice Hamilton, Archie McMahon, Mattie O'Brien, Folkert Boerum, Seinsoth(?), and W. Hawkhurst/Hawkshurst/Hawxhurst. If anyone knows who is who or maybe has a good guess I would appreciate it.
A year later I found this update posted by Craig from Threads of Our Game, published in October 2024. Apparently the image is actually from 1859 and this is a list of player names, which was discovered after someone found a newspaper from years after the fact, 1909 to be exact that provided a list of names to match the faces. So here it is, the 1859 Brooklyn Atlantics.
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