THANK YOU all for your responses. The consensus seems to be that it's JOE CRONIN. I have found that he played with the Red Sox from 1935 to 1945. Can anyone narrow down the year for me based on uniform, socks, shoes, etc??
Over the years I've seen thousands of old portraits in these types of frames and was very surprised when I opened this one up! I believe it to be original... it's fresh out of a local estate... the (deceased) owners once lived in Taunton way back when and moved to my area in the 50's. The paper seems to be like any other portrait I've seen in these frames but I am left wondering how this photo came to be. I'm not finding anything else like this. Is this photo a handout..... something the photographer (from Taunton) took and sold..... maybe Cronin was a friend of the family???
Thanks!!!!!