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Old 08-30-2006, 10:34 PM
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Posted By: bruce Dorskind



Al Kaline, Bob Horner and Mel Ott are three well known stars who never played
a day of minor league baseball.

Excluding the Negro League and winter ball in Cuba and Mexico, does any one
know players whose images appear on E, T and pre-war R cards (regular issues)
who never played minor league baseball/

Could we form a team of the best of each of these players at each position?

Should be a good day's work for super-trivia experts.

Thanks,


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Old 08-30-2006, 11:03 PM
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I do believe Bo Jackson never spent a day in minors. Same for Dave Winfield, but not so positive about him.

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Old 08-30-2006, 11:07 PM
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Jim Abbott went directly from college to the starting rotation of the California Angels.

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Old 08-30-2006, 11:58 PM
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I don't think Robin Yount or John Olerud did either (Olerud possibly may have spent a few games for tune-ups late in his career). I do think Jim Abbott went back to the minors later in his career when he was going through some control struggles.

None of the fore-mentioned guys were on T, E or any pre-war cards to the best of my knowledge.

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Posted By: John Spencer

Not really sure of this one, but I believe Bob Feller was drafted straight to the Indians off the farm in Iowa.

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Old 08-31-2006, 08:42 AM
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Harvey Kuenn?

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Old 08-31-2006, 08:43 AM
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Had complete Major and minor league stats for every player that qualified for that book. That would be my first search

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Old 08-31-2006, 08:49 AM
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Posted By: leon

Joe Nuxhall- started in the bigs at the ripe old age of 16...I doubt he had much of a minor league career before that...


Joseph Henry Nuxhall

Bats Left, Throws Left
Height 6' 3", Weight 219 lb.


Born July 30, 1928 in Hamilton, OH
Debut June 10, 1944
Final Game October 2, 1966



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Old 08-31-2006, 08:55 AM
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Jay, Bo Jackson played AA ball with the Memphis Chicks. I distinctly remember this because the folks in Omaha were sorely disappointed that he completely skipped AAA and went straight from Memphis to the Majors.

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Ok, I may be wrong here so someone can correct me but I thought Bill Dahlen never played a day in the minors. If I'm correct, he certainly would fit the bill of a player with t-cards that never played minor-league ball and also would be an impressive short-stop on the team of non-minor legaue greats!

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I believe he was a player that was drafted out of high school at 18 and went straight to the majors.

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Old 08-31-2006, 09:50 AM
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Don't want to hijack the thread, but this topic is not that extensive and is a variation of the original question. There were several managers, some of which have regular cards, that never played professional ball. Who were they...

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Old 08-31-2006, 09:51 AM
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Major league baseball. I suspect you are going to the major league part of this so you can include managers such as Marse Joe McCarthy. Is that what you are going for here?

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Old 08-31-2006, 10:11 AM
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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Strawberry played almost 4 years in the minors before playing MLB. Pete Incaviglia went straight to the majors out of college.

This is an interesting subject and I'm sure one that's been studied by some SABRite in the past. Did Eddie Collins ever play minor league ball? It seems to me that he may have been one that jumped straight from college to the majors. Didn't he lose his college eligibility because he played MLB at the same time he was still in college? How about Christy Matthewson??? I think when looking at the prewar and deadball era when the minors were not really tied into the major leagues like they are today that odds are likely that you would have had to have been a college player to make the jump. The scouting system just wasn't in place to "discover" a high school phenom. I'm not saying that it didn't happen though...I just don't know.

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I am pretty sure he never spent any time in the minors.

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Did Jim Thorpe or Greasy Neale spend any time in the minors?

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There are a number of subjects in the Zeenut series, not counting Fatty Arbuckle, who only "tried out" for the club, but never played in a regulation game (major or minor league), yet ended up on a card...... To answer the question above, Jim Thorpe played for Portland in the PCL in 1922

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

Did Thorpe play in the minors before making his major league debut? Lots of players from that era finished out their careers in the minors...notably the PCL.

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Jim Thorpe played for the New York Giants from 1913-1919(not 1916).

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But Thorpe played a level of professional baseball before he joined the Giants. That was the reason his 1912 Gold Medals were taken away from him.

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Leon- as you can see from Nuxhall's debut he was actually 15- 15 years and 11 months, to be more precise. I believe he got tattooed, and didn't reappear for many years. It was kind of a wartime gimmick.

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Thorpe played semi pro ball.
Not sure he ever played in the Minors.

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