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Originally Posted by mattsey9
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At ooptdevelopments.com, another poster suggested that the baserunner looks more like Buck Herzog than Fred Merkle, and I agree. Below I have posted a 1908 photo from the Chicago Daily News archive of Herzog, then the baserunner from the "Merkle/Chance" photo, and then Fred Merkle's portrait taken by Carl Horner in 1908. Merkle had a very youthful face that is not evident on the baserunner in the photo with Frank Chance.