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Originally Posted by RUKen
I disagree with Aquarian Sports Cards that the sliding player is looking back at the camera. When the image is enlarged (see below), it appears that he is facing the direction that he is going, and his right hand is covering his right ear, as if he had just been tagged hard right there. What appears to be the bill of his cap is just his hair on the back of his head. There would be a team logo above the bill, if the player were looking back.
I also disagree with Mark17 that the sliding player must be Cobb. Nearly all men at that time had short haircuts, which would have looked the same from the back. I think that MLB teams received their uniforms from the same source, so the belt loop distribution would be similar on every uniform. As for the size and shape of his back, an athletic build was hardly unique to Cobb. It could be Cobb, but without seeing his face clearly, he cannot be identified with any confidence.
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Now that I've looked at it again, I can state with confidence that it
cannot be Cobb. Billy Sullivan is wearing a home uniform. (The White Sox road uniforms were dark blue.) Thus the sliding player must be in a road uniform. The Tigers had dark caps with their gray road uniforms from 1907 forward, and in Cobb's first two seasons (1905 and 1906), the road uniforms were dark blue. The only two American League teams whose light-colored road uniforms had light-colored caps with dark piping in the years 1907 through 1912 were St. Louis (1907 and 1910-1912) and Washington (1910 and 1911 only).