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Dick Rudolph apparently demonstrating the grip for his renowned curveball. See: bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=12306&am... Dick Rudolph by Dick Leyden Though he stood only 5'9.5" and weighed just 160 lbs., Dick Rudolph was a large component of George Stallings' "Big Three" that helped lead the 1914 Boston Braves to their miraculous pennant and World Series sweep. "He was the bellwether of the pitching staff," said Braves coach Fred Mitchell, "and being a little fellow, I believe his success had much to do with big Bill James and George Tyler putting out that little extra effort to keep pace with the cocky kid from the Bronx." Unlike the hard-throwing James and Tyler, Rudolph was a "pitching cutie" who relied on his great curveball and spectacular control. He also threw a spitball, but "about the best you could say for it was that it was wet," recalled his catcher Hank Gowdy.

Very coo pic

Marvelous work!

I'm pretty sure Mr. Unidentified is Hub Perdue. Compare:

The negative caption indicates that Art Fletcher was a New York player, but the Flickr caption says the players are from the Cardinals. Fletcher's bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Fletcher confirms that he was a Giants player.

artolog: Good catch! Art Fletcher was definitely a New York Giant, so we'll make sure the caption is corrected to reflect that. rjones0856: I do think Hub Perdue has some resemblance to the unidentified player, but I don't think it's a match. Here are other images of Perdue from our holdings. His ears stick out quite a bit, and the unidentified player does not share that characteristic. Your suggestion made me curious if I could find a match for the unidentified player, however. I reviewed the roster of the St. Louis Cardinals for 1914, since we can see that from his uniform that he's a Cardinal, and checked for portraits of players in our collections. Working my way through the roster, I found photographs of nearly every player and I think I found a match for the unidentified player in outfielder Lee Magee. This photograph of Magee as well as these others show a lot of good matching facial characteristics. Thanks to all for the close looking, as always!

Yeah, that really looks like Magee.

I'll buy that. I was going by his unibrow and spade-shaped nose, but when I looked at the full size those aren't as impressive in this photo as I thought.

Oct 4, 1913 Brooklyn Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as the first baseman won the Chalmers Award, a precursor to the National League MVP There have been three different "most valuable player" awards in baseball since 1911. The Chalmers Award was the first of those three and it was presented by between 1911 and 1914 by Chalmers Automotive — a Detroit based automobile company. www.baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_chalm.shtml en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalmers_Automobile

nudecowboy: Thanks for the additional information on this photograph. We'll add to the description when we update the record!

Not sure where the Oct. 4 date came from in Kilted Cowboy's post, above. I didn't find it in the cites. Most likely this is Oct. 7, the first game of the World Series, judging from the crowds in the Polo Grounds. We know they aren't there just to see a Dodger! (see next picture of Mayor Kline).

it's been a long time since this post, I may have just fat fingered it...