Thoughts while scrolling: on Twitter, I follow This Day in 1923, the work of a man who is an editor at the Wall Street Journal. Here's one of his tweets from this morning.
I recognized Cobb in the right photo. (Tangent: that "Can't yank" billboard was also in the background of a scene from Buster Keaton's "The Cameraman", which was shot in The Yankee Stadium, as I heard it called in radio broadcasts from decades ago. Like the Pentagon was called the Pentagon Building in the WWII newscasts now on YouTube. But I digress.)
The man on the left doesn't look like Cobb, and is swinging right-handed. Baseball bugs, cranks, and yanigans like me know Ty Cobb batted lefty. A quick visit to baseball-reference.com and the page devoted to the 1923 Detroit Tigers followed. My answer: Harry Heilmann, who hit .403 that season and is also a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Getty Images confirms my guess.
Another source of the obscure word above.
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