1800s tintype photo chicago baseball players in MYRTLE uniforms - identified antique Late-1850s ruby ambrotype

Late-1850s ruby ambrotype

25" and in very good antique condition

based on that death date

Dimensions of this postcard are 5

1800s tintype photo chicago baseball players in MYRTLE uniforms - identified antique Late-1850s ruby ambrotypeOriginal tintype showing two baseball players, one holding a ball, both wearing full "Myrtle" uniforms. 3. 5" x 2. 5" tintype comes in its original 5" x 3" paper sleeve, with Chicago photographer William Neidhardt's studio imprint on the back cover. Also written there in period pen is, "Dad & Bill Sawusch". I own several more unidentified pictures of the player on the right, so I believe it's most likely that Sawusch was on the left, "dad" not needing