Today, while writing about Dutch Meier from the 1906 Pirates, I started searching for more on him since his bio was pretty short. I found the newspaper article from the day he signed with the Pirates(Pittsburgh Press 11/22/1905) along with this note on that page "Meier played a few games for the Pirates last Summer, under an assumed name."
So I checked the 1904-05 Pirates, not sure what year "last Summer" was referring to and I couldn't find any unknown players. I checked out Bull Smith and his story fits, found the paper from his debut, but now I have to go to work so if someone could just find out when Dutch Meier played for the Pirates prior to 1906 and what name he used, that would be great. They may just have been exhibition games played on the team's off-days, the story doesn't get any more specific than what I wrote above.
If you don't feel like doing that, well there is five links here for George Van Haltren(and the 1893 Pirates outfield), who celebrates a birthday today and a story on Tom Burns, who is in the OJ set
http://blogs.piratesprospects.com/hi...tory-march-30/
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