Many of you will likely remember Tim Blackwell, one of the typical “good field, no hit” catchers of the era.

Blackwell usually sported a walrus mustache; that’s how I remember him. But as you can see in the photo at the top of this post, he wore a beard for a while as a Cub. That wasn’t all that usual for that era, especially for the buttoned-down Cubs. Blackwell was one of the first Cubs to wear a beard since… well, probably the late 19th Century when that was fashionable.

Here’s the full photo:

The clues, of course, reside in the Wrigley Field scoreboard, which show almost all of the matchups from that day. It’s just after 11 a.m., so the ballpark hasn’t yet opened for an afternoon contest. The people you see in the bleachers are likely team employees.

Some of the matchups are blocke

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