It’s just like watching The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, except Boris and Natasha are President and Vice President.

Gilligan’s Heroes

Someone needs to shorten Colson Montgomery’s swing.

A hyrdro outage and life kind of got in the way of this, but I think I've finally been able to identify every member of the 1926 Toronto Maple Leafs Opening Day photo (it was also the christening of Maple Leaf Stadium along the shores of - yes - Lake ONTARIO). /1

They got her into power, and she knows they can dump her like they did Kenney. Since she has no backbone, ironically she’ll bend over backwards to placate them.

They’re ill-informed, myopic, self-centered, never satisfied - and they like it that way.

Thanks! The photo has been staring at me as I wrote for over a year, I figured all those faces deserved names.

I'm still awaiting confirmation of Harrington, but this puzzle is almost complete. I've been able to put names to the faces of the team I spend the past year reading and writing about. And you can read all about it in "The Howleyites," available at Amazon, Indigo, and August Publishing. /end

That left only INF Andy Harrington (listed as "Pinch Hitter" in Bball Ref because that was his one and only MLB appearance in 1925), who was a late-inning defensive replacement in the Leafs Opening Day W. Photos were hard to come by, as you might expect, but I'm leaning toward him being standing 13.

An email to the Sports Information Department of the University of Georgia, pitcher Claude Satterfield's alma mater, netted a pair of yearbook photos of him, and allowed me to conclude that he is standing 12.

Slowly but surely, I had identified all but 3 of the players in that photo. An email to the Herkimer (NY) Historical Society resulted in an Ancestry screenshot of utility man Del Capes, seated to Howley's left in the front row.

Several players on the '26 Leafs had brief MLB careers before or after that season, so several were easy to find, like (in order) Ownie Carroll, Frank Gilhooley, Lefty Stewart, and Otis Miller.

So, picking up this thread from yesterday.....slowly but surely, the 17 mystery players began to reveal themselves from the mists of time. At 6'3", Jim Faulkner was the tallest player on the team, and easy to pick out in the middle of the back row.

I knew Dick more from his TV work, but he’s a good addition.

Enjoy La Rambla.

I do think that DoFo has overplayed his hand here. Because his son is invovled, I don't think Godfrey will go away quietly.

But after identifying those individuals, I still had 17 to go, and that's where a 2nd problem cropped up. With a couple exceptions, most of these players were career minor leaguers, with only the briefest of MLB time; finding photos of them was a huge challenge. I'll tell you more tomorrow. /9