At bottom is a September 20, 1908 line-up from the Kansas City Star listing Stengel second in the lineup and playing second base for the Bentons in an upcoming game in Kansas City, Kansas. This is significant because the Benton players are i.d.'d on the back of the team cabinet photo shown further down in this post, and at least five of them (see Red Sox i.d.'s below postcard, above) are also members of the 1909 KC Red Sox team. Since one of them is listed as the manager on the Bentons cabinet, it looks like the team changed names for the 1909 season.
Read more here:
http://www.kansascity.com/2008/10/22...#storylink=cpy
REA sold a cabinet of the Kansas City Bentons back in 2008. From the auction description:
"(Interestingly, the players are identified in print on the reverse, but Stengel is misidentified; the sheet lists him in the middle row, though he is clearly standing in the upper left.) Stengel, who was about sixteen-years-old at the time of the photo, ..."
I think the actual i.d. on the back of the photo is correct: 2nd from left, but he would have been 18. It's kind of weird that auction houses can't even i.d. players in photos when they have the correct i.d. written on the photo
Note: Several of the players shown below are also in the 1909 KC Red Sox photo. I was able to i.d. five, but there might be more.
03-09-2013, 12:10 AM
1908 Kansas City Bentons
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