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PATRON – FRIDAY FORGOTTEN PHOTOS: Baseball in Alabama – Do you know the names or anything about these people?

Here are some interesting photographs at the Alabama Department of Archives and History of some baseball player,  probably from around Alabama. Do you know anything about them? Comment below if you can identify them.  You can also click on the link to the Alabama Department of Archives and inform them of their identities.

Two young men in baseball uniforms. Their shirts say Outlaw ca. 1900 – Duke and Weeks family collection Q9479 ,Two young men in baseball uniforms. Their shirts say “Outlaw” ca. 1900 – Duke and Weeks family collection Q9479 ,(Alabama Department of Archives and History)

Men on a baseball team at the Air Corps base at Roberts Field in Birmingham, Alabama. ca. 1920s – Most of the men in the group are wearing shirts that say, Mobile Cadets.Men on a baseball team at the Air Corps base at Roberts Field in Birmingham, Alabama. ca. 1920s – Most of the men in the group are wearing shirts that say, “Mobile Cadets.” Q8938 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)

Uncle Tony – African American baseball player in Birmingham, Alabama. ca 1940s Q5159 (by Lollar's Birmingham, Alabama Department of Archives and History)Uncle Tony – African American baseball player in Birmingham, Alabama. ca 1940s Q5159 (by Lollar’s Birmingham, Alabama Department of Archives and History)

Inmates playing baseball at the Reform School for Juvenile Negro Law Breakers in Mt. Meigs, Alabama 1945 Q3208 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)Inmates playing baseball at the Reform School for Juvenile Negro Law Breakers in Mt. Meigs, Alabama 1945 Q3208 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)

Members of the baseball team at the Alabama Boys Industrial School in Jefferson County, Alabama ca. 1900 Q9520 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)Members of the baseball team at the Alabama Boys Industrial School in Jefferson County, Alabama ca. 1900 Q9520 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)

Baseball team of the 46th Infantry regiment at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama August 3, 1918 Q85504 (Photographer G. F. Jennings, Alabama Department of Archives and History)Baseball team of the 46th Infantry regiment at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama August 3, 1918 Q85504 (Photographer G. F. Jennings, Alabama Department of Archives and History)

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6 comments

  1. At least one of them has a solid sense of humor.

  2. That’s the “got it going on” boys.

  3. Ty Cobb played in Alabama in 1904, Anniston area.

  4. I know Ty Cobb played baseball in Anniston when he first started out.

  5. The original Georgia Peach..mean SOB..but one of the.GREATEST!!!