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With regard to game worn baseball cleats would it be plausible to consider a pair of cleats to be a photomatch if, after examing as many available photos (and other sources) of a player throughout that player's career as possible and finding the style of cleats in question to have been worn in only a few of the photos from a certain period of time.
For example, a pair of Player-A's tiger striped Reebok Size 13 are for sale. Photos of Player-A wearing cleats that are similar to these in style and are found to be visible in photos from only a week or two of the player's entire 15 year career. These photos, while they don't allow for matching based on use characteristics (uniform number, dirt, wear, etc), and these are the only photos found of the player wearing that style....would (should?) this be considered a photomatch based on the implied rarity of the style even though an exact match based on physical characteristics cannot be made?
Is it safe to assume that since these cleats were only seen in photos from a 7 to 14 day span (for example) that they are the cleats in question and are the ones for sale? I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Tim Byington
With regard to game worn baseball cleats would it be plausible to consider a pair of cleats to be a photomatch if, after examing as many available photos (and other sources) of a player throughout that player's career as possible and finding the style of cleats in question to have been worn in only a few of the photos from a certain period of time.
For example, a pair of Player-A's tiger striped Reebok Size 13 are for sale. Photos of Player-A wearing cleats that are similar to these in style and are found to be visible in photos from only a week or two of the player's entire 15 year career. These photos, while they don't allow for matching based on use characteristics (uniform number, dirt, wear, etc), and these are the only photos found of the player wearing that style....would (should?) this be considered a photomatch based on the implied rarity of the style even though an exact match based on physical characteristics cannot be made?
Is it safe to assume that since these cleats were only seen in photos from a 7 to 14 day span (for example) that they are the cleats in question and are the ones for sale? I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Tim Byington
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