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The caption is misleading. That's Charlie Ebbets on the right.

and Ebbets is spelled with one t not two. Here is another photo of him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ebbets

Another Bain/LOC photo shows his son, Charles H. Ebbets, Junior:

I just learned that the "H." in their names stands for "Hercules." Makes you wonder if history would have turned out different if Charlie Sr.'s middle name had been "Ralph."

Here's another Bain/LOC portrait of the elder Ebbets, in Bain's 1914 photostream, posted to Flickr on May 20, 2011:

www.baseball-reference.com/c/cutshge01.shtml en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cutshaw

great!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Standing portraits, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

An interesting sidelight to these old photos of Dodger players is that the Brooklyn team went through a number of name changes during its early years. Before joining the NL they had been variously known as the Atlantics, the Greys, the Grooms, and the Bridegrooms. If this photo dates from 1913, as indicated above, then the team was called the Brooklyn Superbas at the time. This was the name the team had adopted on joining the NL in 1899. They used the name Dodgers during the 1912 season (and maybe 1911- sources differ), but returned to their earlier name for the 1913 season. In 1914 they became the Brooklyn Robins, and then restored the name Dodgers in 1916. However, some sources say the team officially remained the Robins into the early 1930s. That the name Robins did continue in use at least into the 1920s is shown by various New York Times articles (such as this article of July 23, 1921) that use the names Robins and Dodgers interchangeably.

www.baseball-reference.com/s/smithre02.shtml en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Smith_(MLB_third_baseman)