Working off the roster from Baseball Reference and from box scores from the 1888 games, here are the likely players in this composite (Player, date of first game, date of last game):
Al Fisher, Aug 25 - Sep 30
Gus Klopf, Aug 25 - Sep 29
Ed Mayer, Aug 25 - Sep 30
Tom McCullam, Aug 25 - Sep 28
Ben Stephens, Aug 25 - Sep 30
Tom Forster, Aug 26 - Sep 30
Al McCauley, Aug 26 - Sep 30
Art Snyder, Aug 26 - Sep 14
John Doran, Aug 28 - Sep 15
James Deegan, Sep 2 - Sep 30
Rudy Kemmler, Sep 9 - Sep 30
William Lucas (manager) - Center portrait
Davenport played its first game in the Western Association on the road in Des Moines on August 25, came home for one game on August 26, and then was back on the road again until September 12.
Leyden and Watts only played one game (on August 25) in Des Moines. Hupp played in their three games at Des Moines, but not the game on August 26 in Davenport. Whiteley only played in one game, on August 25 in Des Moines.
Ira Philips and George Scherer both played in just one game, on August 26 in Davenport. Phillips and Scherer also both played with the previous Davenport club. They played on August 26 because manager Lucas had not yet filled out the roster, or players he had signed had not joined the club.
Dick Dwyer played in the first two games of Davenport's second series, in Omaha, where Dwyer was in 1888. (He played a handful of games earlier that summer for the Omaha club.) Hoover, a member of the Chicago club, caught the first game of that series for Davenport in Omaha because the Davenport catchers were hurt.
George Treadway, George Dunn and Harry Burquin all joined the club in late September, within ten days of the club shutting down for good. If the composite were put together that late in the season, Doran and Snyder would not be in it.
I've got some photos I think match, which I would appreciate a second opinion on. I've got photos of most of the players in the list above, but I still can't seem to match everyone. Additional eyeballs would be appreciated.
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