Who is this old time Red Sox player?
frankhardy
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I was in Red Robin near Nashville tonight and this picture is hanging on the wall. It is driving me crazy trying to figure out who this is. I thought it looked like Sam Crawford but he played for the Tigers.
Who is this?
Shane
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I agree. He bears a striking resemblance to Sam Crawford. What's funny is that I am almost positive I've seen this picture before--probably in a book I've read, but for the life of me I can't figure out who it is.
Its Dutch Leonard, a left handed pitcher for the Sox from 1913-1918, later pitched for Tigers.
The image you posted is is available here: http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/hec.03129/
Thanks. I have heard of him before. He had a couple of run-ins with Ty Cobb. I just listened to an audiobook about Ty Cobb called A Terrible Beauty. It's a tremendous book setting the record straight about how Ty Cobb was not as much of a monster as people make him out to be.
Shane