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Cubs historical sleuthing: The story of three Taylors

Getty Images titled this one “Portrait of Three Taylors” and elaborated:

Portrait of three baseball players, from left, Tony Taylor, Joe Taylor, and Sammy Taylor, as they pose together at Wrigley Field before a National League game, Chicago, Illinois, spring 1960.

The problem with this is that there were only two guys named Joe Taylor who played Major League Baseball, and neither one of them played for the Cubs. One of the Joe Taylors played from 1954-59, and looking at his bb-ref page, that’s definitely not the guy in the photo. The other one was a Negro Leagues player in 1937.