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Originally Posted by tnfoto
I am not sure which version of the missing player list you're looking at, Patsy, but Thompson has not been included in the list linked in my signature line since Chickalooza discovered his image in 2022.
I'll second what Cinemaodyssey said. Chickalooza isn't just "someone." He is one of the foremost contributors to SABR's Biographical Research Committee and Pictorial History Committee. If he (or Cinemaodyssey, for that matter) says a player is found, that player is found.
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In all honesty I would probably recognize their names if I heard them since I am in SABR as of last year but I really didn't interact too much with people outside of the 19th century and origins committee aside from in social media groups or people I just befriended along the way. Most of the work I have done has been for BR Bullpen (kinda it's own thing but still started off as SABRpedia though we have a number of non SABR members and I joined it before I was a SABR member myself too) and protoball with Bruce Allardice.
I believe one of the mentioned users is Justin McKinney maybee since I vaguely remember someone saying so last year but idk which one since we're all just usernames on here. I still know there are some very high up members on here though which is why I like using it for reference.
For the list I have I definitely downloaded it in 2024 and used it for reference but didn't really see any updates to it so I would just manually track which ones were discovered and posted on here when they would get posted but maybe it was an old version or something since that player was found in 2022 and I definitely added a bunch of correct images and guys that were discovered after the fact on here to the Bullpen pages and just marked off the ones that were found after that, but I just deleted it and downloaded the one directly from your signature and everything seems in place now.
I was in the process of making some publications for the committee and honestly my personal life just collapsed in 2024/2025 so my focus on them mostly just disappeared for a while from certain projects to either obsessively make small changes and adding photos of the current players to the Bullpen on days when I have no focus since it requires no thinking. or to just hyper fixate on some random issue that's completely unrelated and then I became too busy to keep up with them until now but I am in the process of working on them again. Obviously I don't claim to be a complete top of the pile expert especially given that I started off like reaaaaallly young with researching this stuff compared to most SABR members (I still haven't met one that doesn't have like 20 years on me so I want to be able to build up as much as I can to help and want to use that as a way to gain more knowledge starting earlier than most). I literally became an administrator on the Bullpen as a teenager and for a brief time was essentially talked to as if I was some grand thing by Bruce Allardice in the winter because of how much I added to the site in like a few weeks before I became busy with other stuff once again which I honestly don't feel like I deserve in the sense that I feel like I still have a long way to go and of course many of these are collaborative projects but the amount of stuff that I really "discovered" on my own is still small so I am going through and trying to find all and everything I find questionable or uncertain about, to not only learn for myself (which I have become quite decent at from what I was told from others) and also to ultimately preserve all this information since I literally have no other big interest in almost anything outside of these. Like... Actually for real.
Anyways, the fact that I'm trying and genuinely want to help is all I want to make clear and also I am trying to force myself to be less afraid to ask questions now which is why I will constantly be doing so whenever I feel like I need to.
Anyways, to continue with another question, George Popplein is listed as missing on the link I got from the signature but the document itself says 2022 (if I downloaded this wrong somehow please tell me) and I seen this image said to be him on a few sites. I think it's from an 1860-something team photo if I recall since I know for a fact I seen the full picture before but don't know where I did.