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07-15-2012, 05:29 PM
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Staley Photo
My guess is that after the team moved to Chicago in 1921 and became the Chicago Staleys (and later the Bears) that the company continued to maintain a football team in Decatur and that is what your picture is.
The Staley company had various different sports teams throughout its history. 
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07-15-2012, 06:40 PM
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I called my Mother to ask her if she had anymore info on the picture and she said that Carl Davis(my Grandfather) used to go to St. Louis every year to try out for the "baseball team". He also owned a bar in Macon and was known as a pretty tough boxer/fighter and had won the attention of the ballplayers as a "scrapper" the way he played. Carl was not a very big guy(pictured to the left of the guy with the mascot) but apparently a well rounded athlete and bar fighter. I wish he had lived long enough for me to pick his brain for stories.
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