Minor League Baseball Players

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Florida Marlins minor leaguer

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Florida Marlins and Chicago White Sox minor leaguer, this is the only image I could find of him.

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Some shots of him with the Florida Marlins

Credit: Getty Images

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Any pics of Leverette Spencer (1950-61) out there?

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Off eBay but from the Spalding Baseball Guide 1903, p. 146.

Players in this picture are: Tom Delahanty, Gus Dundon, Emil Frisk, Charlie Jones, Arlie Latham, Charles McCloskey, Jack McConnell, Doc Moskiman, Walt Preston, Teddy Radcliffe, Edward Webster, Al Whitridge, Parke Wilson

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From a retrospective in the South Bend Tribune, July 28, 2014.

Players in this picture are: from left, seated, Charles Cogswell (right fielder) and George Tieman (catcher); middle row, Elmer Moffitt, George Schaefer, Herbert Smith, George Ream and Cecil Ferguson, all pitchers, and William “Cuppy” Groeschow (shortstop); and, top row, Edward “Goat” Anderson (center fielder), James Sager (third baseman), Alva Spangler (first baseman), Edward Coffey (left fielder) and Angus Grant (second baseman and captain)

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Found different photos of this team.

1) iPhone pix (not great quality) taken from a 1907 Denver Grizzlies game program at History Colorado with following team members - also identified on the photo - Charles “Babe” Adams, Ira Belden, Pat Bohannon, George Engel, Rusty Hall, William McDonough, Bob McHale, John Moore, Howard Murphy, Pat Paige, Wallace Reddick, Jimmy Toman, Ed Wheeler, Forrest Wright, Jack Zalusky

2) Spalding Baseball Guide 1908 p. 238

3) Reach Baseball Guide 1908 p 278

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as with 1907 photos, three photos here of the 1908 Denver Grizzlies (tho as with 1907, Spalding and Reach used the same picture):

1) iPhone pix (better quality than 1907 photo) taken from a 1908 Grizzlies program at History Colorado. Likely shot just before season as 3-4 players are nowhere to be found in any roster - players shown are: Rick Adams, Arnold Ambros, Ira Belden, Pat Bohannon, Harry Cassady, Fred Doll, Tom Downey, Charlie Irwin, Fred Kerner, John Kinnally, Bill Lauterborn, Otto Charles Merz, Hank Olmsted, Pat Paige, W.E. Perce, Irv Waldron, Harry White, Jack Zalusky

2) Spalding Baseball Guide 1909, p.182 (w/additional players Krueger, McDonough, Corbett, Jackson, Lovett, Ackly)

3) Reach Baseball Guide 1909, p.228

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Great pictures!

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St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds minor league catcher

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In 1901, a player named Harrison played in one game with Washington (in DC) on September 27. Baseball Reference identifies this player as Leo J Harrison, a minor league player in the Hudson River League from 1904-1906.

Leo Harrison was born February 6, 1881 in New York. The Lynn Daily Item published a brief bio of him on April 16, 1908. The state he started playing professional baseball five years prior with the Saugerites. Newspapers from the time refer to him as Benny Harrison. From 1904-1906 he played in the Hudson River League (harris005leo). In 1907, he was with Macon for a time, showing up under the name Harris (harris001ber) until he broke a leg in April. In December, 1907, he signed with Lynn of the New England League, but he was released to New Bedford right as the 1908 season started (harris101---), and that is where he turns up - in the team photo of the 1908 New Bedford club, published in the 1909 Reach Baseball Guide. He signed with Pottsville for 1909, and with Bay City for 1910, but I'm not sure he ever played for those clubs, if he even reported in the spring.

He died on July 14, 1962 in New York.

So here is Leo Joseph Harrison, from 1908 with New Bedford.

Chance are, however, he wasn't the outfielder with Washington in 1901. That player was described as "living somewhere in Maryland" and "hails from the Southern League". Neither sounds like a 20 year old from New York with no prior professional experience.