Forgotten great outfield

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Posted By: John/z28jd 

Looking over George Sislers stats it reminded me how good and relatively unnoticed the Browns outfield was during a 7 year stretch from 1919-1925 when they had the trio of Baby Doll Jacobson,Jack Tobin and Kenny Williams.These 3 guys each finished their career hitting above .300 [311 309 and 319 respectively] and put up the following numbers

1919[J-T-W] .323 .327 .300
1920 .355 .341 .307
1921 .352 .352 .347
1922 .317 .331 .332
1923 .309 .317 .357
1924 .318 .299 .324
1925 .341 .301 .331

Id feel pretty good going into a season knowing id get those kind of numbers every year.Plus Williams had good power and speed [First 30-30 man ever].Jacobson passed the 90 run and 90 rbi plateau 4 times each and played very good defense out in centerfield.Tobin had 4 straight years with at least 200 hits/90 runs scored/30 doubles during that stretch including 132 runs in 1921.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better 7 year stretch with the same outfield and not find a hall of famer or 2 among them

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Posted By: Darren J. Duet

You'd be hard pressed to match Sisler's offensive dominance between 1917 and 1922. I understand he was a helluva fielder and a terror on the basepath's as well. Sisler is one of the great's of all-time and very underrated until this year. He also had a 2.35 era in 24 games as a pitcher early on in his career.

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Phila, NL: 1894.

Tuck Turner led the league with a .416 BA and couldn't win a starting job in the outfield composed of Sliding Billy Hamilton who hit "only" .404 that year, Sam Thompson who weighed in at .407 and Big Ed Delahanty also at .407.

Hows that for depth?