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Originally Posted by Tigerden
Kind of interesting that the team seems to be integrated during this era (the teens).
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I think it's older than the teens - probably 1905-1910 - but it could be early 1910's. It's an albumen on a cheap mount, but the border on an albumen is slightly unusual. Yeah, by the teens you wouldn't see black players in the pics too often.
Several ML teams wanted to integrate (John McGraw in particular) simply to be a better team, but they couldn't. Not so below the ML level. This particular team only has eight players in the pic, even with the black player, so maybe if they had a slightly larger male population in their town, he wouldn't have been as welcome. Also, he is noticeably almost out of the picture and doesn't seem too excited.