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Tige?

In The Story of My Life, Hank Greenberg wrote of Moriarty: Much later in my career George Moriarty and I became very good friends. Back in the early 1900s he played third base for Detroit, and he used to steal home. Somebody wrote a poem about him, and the title was “Never Die on Third Moriarty.” All through the rest of his life George felt he knew something about stealing home. When he was umpiring on third base, and on occasion when I’d get on third, he coached me on how to take a lead so I could steal home. I never had the guts enough to try, because I didn’t think I could make it. I’d run down the line, and he’d keep insisting that I take a bigger lead. I was always afraid that I was going to get picked off. But it was interesting to see Moriarty, who was umpiring at third base, coaching me on how to steal home for the Tigers. It became a joke among the players, but I never got up the nerve to try it. www.baseballlibrary.com/excerpts/excerpt.php?book=hank_gr...

George Moriarty (1884-1964) would not only play Major League Baseball for 13 years (1903-1916), he also continue in the game as a manager, an umpire, and then a scout. His grandson is actor Michael Moriarty (1941- ). See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moriarty

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Dyer

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Dyer In 1914 he had his debut with the New York Giants. I am not sure why the previous attribution placed it in 1917 when he was with Detroit, was it based on the uniform?

Richard, it's the gang from the Society for American Baseball Research, sowing confusion again. At this point, we are in January, 1914 in the LOC postings of the Bain News Agency's photostream. That photo was not taken in January, so probably dates from the summer of 1913, at the latest.