Thanks guys.
Jay, Derek's photo is similar to one or two others I have seen of the NL Giants from 1890. It is helpful in that the NL uniform shown is not of the lace-up variety-- if it were the question of Mr. Ewing's garb would likely be answered. It remains unsettled, at least to me, whether the 1891 NL New Yorkers also wore lace-ups, or did they have just the same uniform style as shown in Derek's photo from the preceding year.
It is my understanding that the Player's League teams deliberately intended to compete as directly as possible with the NL teams in their cities, in which case the closeness of uniform styles would not be surprising. Although I don't collect 19th century stuff, it seems there is a paucity of Player's League stuff out there, given that the league was only around one year. That is why I believe the cabinet would be more valuable if it could be determined authoritatively to be a P.L. uniform, but I am not disposed to represent it as such, at least at this time.
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