Help Me Identify A Player

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Posted By: Dan

I recently got this photo from the Matty McIntyre collection and I believe it may be Sam Thompson. Can anyone help me validate this? Thompson played 8 games with the Tigers in 1906 and he would have been 46 years old at the time.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5138382652&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

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Posted By: Julie

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Posted By: hankron

I don't know if it is or is not, but the guy in your photo very closely resembles the Sam Thompson in the Julie's images.

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Posted By: Dan

I have already heard from Sam Thompson's great nephew and indeed it is Sam Thompson.

I very much appreciate the help of this board. I can't believe how fast the response was to this.

Thanks,
Dan

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Posted By: Rhys

I bought 2 of the three photos of Detroit manager Bill Armour from the collection and that is who is in your picture. He looks pretty similar, but the photos I have are identified on the back in Matty McIntire's hand as "Armour Det Mgr". Still a nice piece though.

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Posted By: Dan

I have other photos of Bill Armour and this is not Armour. I am satisfied that this is indeed Sam Thompson and his Great Nephew has already confirmed this to me in email. I have not removed this from the scrapbook paper, but I did notice that McIntyre wrote on some of the other photos that I have removed so I may try and cut a slice in the scrapbook paper to see if he identified the photo.

Dan

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Posted By: Dan

Here is a photo of Bill Armour from the same collection.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5138382679

Dan

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Posted By: Rhys

Then McIntire got it wrong on the back of the photo I have. It does look like Thompson and I can surely see the resemblance, I was just going off what is written on the back of the pictures I have and saw without further research.

Looks like you are correct though from the other photo.

I was EXTREMELY plesed with the photos I won from this collection. Every single piece I bought had a photo on the reverse. I paid $3 for a photo of some kids playing around in cuba and when I got it, there was a shot of 7 baseball players in uniform on the other side of the scrapbook paper! My only regret now is that I didn't buy more of them.

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Posted By: Scott

Too bad he is such an incredibly slow shipper - if we had received our first lots in time, we would have known that and could have bid more on the second set of auctions he ran.

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Posted By: Dan

I bought 8 or 9 of them and all of them but two had photos on the back. I too wish I would have bought more of the non-baseball photos. I did get lucky with the "unidentified" photos that I bought. I got two of Jimmy Archer in a Tigers uni. He played only 18 games with the Tigers in 1907 and went on to a great career with the Cubs. He was one of the finest defensive catchers of the day. Hughie Jennings said that letting Archer go was one of his biggest mistakes he ever made. I also got one of Davy Jones, and one of Sam Crawford.

I still have one that I'm trying to identify if anyone wants to give it a shot.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50129&item=5134983628

I'm thinking maybe Ed Barrow who would have been McIntyre's first manager in Detroit. But that's probably wishful thinking.

Dan

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Posted By: Scott

You did much better than me with your "back" photos. But I did get a "Matty" signature on one and a "Larry Quinlan" (guy who we never heard of). The seller's techniques and player identification methods are a mystery to me - not only did he miss some valuable "back" photos, but he also mis-id'd a few of the ones he was selling. Still, he made a mint on these! ...and your buck probably goes a bit further in Arkansas.

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Posted By: rhys

The photo I regret letting go more than any of them is the one of the Detroit Groundskeep with lawnmower at the stdium. I had never seen a groundskeeper photo this early. I cant complain though, I got some Great stuff.

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Posted By: Dan

That groundskeeper photo was cool. I would have really liked to have gotten the photo of Sam Crawford in his Cadillac (got sniped and couldn't get another bid in).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5138382598

Dan