T206 facial recognition
I've posted before on T206 players being misidentified, Lucky Wright is actually a picture of Eugene Wright and Art Kruger actually uses a picture of Otto Krueger so I figured I'd try a third one I saw while writing today. Bill Clymer was a manager at Columbus in 1909 but judging by the picture of him, the player on the card looks a lot more like Otis Clymer, who actually played in the majors in from 1905 until early 1909 and would seem like a more suitable subject than Bill who had a very brief major league career in 1891. Here are pictures of the two players and the card. First Bill, then the t206 which is supposed to picture him, then Otis Clymer. The Columbus jerseys and hats did not have emblems back then so that was all put on afterwards, they had blank white jerseys according to 1906-07 team photos I just saw
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