Jack Morris writes about the Frank Wickware/Walter Johnson contest in 1913:
“I think the Eshen listed in the boxscore for the All-Americans is Jim Eschen, who would eventually play 10 games for the 1915 Cleveland Indians. He was an up-and-coming player in 1913. The Yankees had signed him and sent him to Jersey City in the International League where he mostly played left field. 1913 was his rookie year in Organized Baseball. According to the December 20, 1913 Sporting Life, he was going to go to camp with the Yankees in Houston for the spring of 1914.”
Also: see Phil Dixon’s book The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History, page 68, for another team photograph of the Schenectady Mohawk Giants, this time without the plaid jackets so you can see what their uniforms looked like.
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