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Originally Posted by smokelessjoe
I know this isn't baseball but I thought everyone would enjoy seeing these. I think they are just amazing. I have not found any info yet on the man writing with his mouth - I think the name on the back is Jesse Frary? Picked up about 10 of the sailor guys (USS Brooklyn) as well, all in a little town in Alabama.
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Looks like "Feary" to me. Another example of the same CDV with same name on back (appears to be his signature, rather than a simple identification of the photo's subject):
http://cwfp.biz/cgi-bin/sg_past/tm.p...33&C_1865-1900
and it looks like it was all downhill from there, as by 1900, he was also legless and living in a work house...?
(5th column, about 2/3 of the way down)
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...13/ed-1/seq-2/
What I find hilarious though, is that even without any arms, his penmanship is far better than 99.9% of modern ballplayers
