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The player fourth from the left is my great grandfather. He lived in the Puget Sound area is entire life. I would guess from the uniforms and his apparent age that this photograph dates from 1910 to 1915. This photograph was scanned from an unused postcard that has been in the family since that time. Other than that, we don't know anything about it. I have found no local records concerning an Excelsior baseball team. View full size.
It's possible your grandfather was working to either build the Nooksack Powerplant in Whatcom County and was part of the camp baseball team, or worked at the Excelsior gold mine and was on their team. My great-grandfather was part owner of a few logging camps in the area, and they all had baseball teams that played each other, traveling on the logging trains to play each other.
According to Google: "The powerplant was originally constructed in the early 1900s (the plant has been supplying hydroelectric power to Whatcom County and Bellingham for more than 100 years), and there's a present day campground called Excelsior campground, which sits on the former town-site for workers and their families who lived there during the construction and early operation of the powerplant. Homes, shops, and even a private school for the children of the workers fitted into this little hamlet. While forests and time have managed to hide most evidence of this, ruins of building foundations and remnant debris such as broken toys, pots, pans, and hardware have occasionally surfaced. The century-old original brick powerhouse building still houses operating generators and is listed on the Historic Register. The campground shares its name, Excelsior, with the formerly famous gold mine located across the river and a mile’s distance. Though both powerplant and mine were initially begun at the same time it wasn’t until a major rebuilding of the mine a decade later, that it became the closest customer of the powerplant. The powerlines, still active, that can be seen near the highway entrance to the campground mark another interesting lost site. Beneath the lines, a rocky talus slope appears as a scar in the steep forested hillside above the highway. Located directly below these lines and near the top of the slope is the buried portal of the First Chance Gold Mine. The visible rocky slopes are a combination of mine waste and rockslide. Ironically it was the powerplant that destroyed this mine. After clearing trees and shrubs from beneath the newly strung power lines, a brush fire somehow began in the dry slash and quickly swept over the mining camp destroying all the surface equipment. The stripped soil slid soon after burying what was left. The mine never a significant producer was never reopened."
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