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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Tom Russo</b><p>I like George "Hooks" Wiltse. Pitched for the Giants behind Matty, McGinnity and Dummy Taylor. Won 13 in a row to start his career in 1904.
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>howard</b><p>John Paciorack, the greatest one game wonder ever. In his only game in 1962 or 1963 he went three for three with two walks, four runs and three RBIs for Houston. And he was only eighteen at the time!
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Kevin Saucier</b><p>Not pre-war but....<br /><br />Kevin Saucier - for obvious reasons<br /><br /><img src="http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/4390/ksaucierblacklessoh5.jpg"><br /><br />
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>DMcD</b><p>When I first read this thread I thought: Ho! Jay's back!? Peter's back!? Then I checked the dates. Anyway it's a good topic and was resurrected by the heretofore obscure and mysterious Mr. Walker's granddaughter so what the hey! By popular demand here is a Peter C. topic for you: which would you rather be, a Mayflower descendant or the distant relly of an old ballplayer? Me, I'd go with the ballplayer.<br /><br />Borrowing Kevin's idea, favorite All-Time Obscure Ballplayer:<br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/Dec07/DSC05393.JPG"><br />Favorite obscure pre-war player, Waipahu's favorite son, Prince Oana:<br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/July07/PrinceOana_Zeenut.jpg"><br />In accord with Joe B., favorite (obscure) post-war player, Moose Skowron. Not all that obscure however. Seven-time All-Star played on some dominant Yankee teams and never got traded to Kansas City. That's his infallibly-alleged 1957 game-used cap on the shelf.<br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/Dec07/Toleteros_Skowron.JPG"><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/June07/Library_BB.jpg"><br />Interesting interview:<br /><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_8_62/ai_104362925" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_8_62/ai_104362925</a>
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Dan Kravitz</b><p>But of course... Dan Kravitz<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i12/chiprop/195920DAN20KRAVITZ.jpg">
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>howard</b><p>Kevin, Dave and Dan....are you guys the former players or just similarly named?
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>judson hamlin</b><p>I'll go for Mike Tiernan. Trenton, NJ native and New York Giant outfielder in the 1880's with O'Rourke, Connor, Ward, Keefe, et al. Hit a fair number of home runs for the day and later ran a saloon in NYC. I believe he died during the 1919 flu pandemic.
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>boxingcardman</b><p>Wilbur Wood: He had some great seasons but go zero respect because he was a fat knuckleballer. My first glove was a Wilbur Wood model. I painstakingly broke in that glove all winter, used it for a few years, and my mom threw it out. Man I wish I still had that one. I still have the bat I got at the same time (though it's cracked over the years). <br /><br />In basketball, Chuck Nevitt. He was the last man on the bench for the 1985 "Showtime" Lakers. When the Lakers had a great lead late in the game, the crowd in the Forum would start chanting for Riley to put in the 7'5" Chuckmeister because having his awkward behind in there meant that the game was over. I saw him on the UCLA campus one spring (I guess the Lakers were working out there). Amazing that a human being can be that tall. His hip was at my throat level. <br /><br />Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Ed Ivey</b><p>Moonlight Graham
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Marty</b><p>Charles Victory Faust<br><br>GO YARD
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Scot Reader</b><p>For some reason I have always cheered the loudest for the late 30s-or-older guys who are nearing either 3,000 hits or 300 wins, e.g. Harold Baines, Buddy Bell, Craig Biggio, Bert Blyleven, Bill Buckner, Carlton Fisk, Julio Franco, Jim Kaat, Phil Niekro, Al Oliver, Nolan Ryan, Rusty Staub, Robin Yount, etc., etc. One might classify them as "veterans on the bubble".
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Dave Hornish</b><p>I've got to go with Shotgun Shuba. The nickname is for the bat, not the arm...
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>In the Fall of 1949, as an 11 year old kid, my hero for life was Johnny Lindell. In the final weekend of the season it was "do or die" for<br /> the Yankees playing the Red Sox. The Red Sox came into Yankee Stadium on Oct 1st, one game ahead in the standings. In the 8th in-<br />ning it was tied 4-4 when Lindell came to bat. One powerful swing by Johnny sent the ball sailing into the left-field stands to win it for<br /> New York. That dramatic HR is clear in my mind....as if Lindell hit it yesterday. The Yankees went on to win 5 consecutive World Cham-<br />pionships (1949-53).<br /><br />Lindell finished his career as a knuckleball pitcher in 1954....he started as a pitcher with the Yankees in 1941. Mgr. McCarthy converted<br /> him into an outfielder to take advantage of his hitting power.<br /> <br /><br /><img src="http://www.freephotoserver.com/v001/tedzan/aalindpagejoed.jpg"><br /><br />1949........JOHNNY LINDELL..........................................J OE PAGE...................................JOE DiMAGGIO
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>fred</b><p>pete gillespie<br /><br />played in 1880's with NY & Troy<br />he's the only pro baseball player from my home town. i have 4 diff old judges 2 buchner coins, i'm always looking for his cards i don't have.<br /><br />cool thread
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p> Fred,there are 5 major leaguers who were born in Carbondale,PA Gillespie is the only one im sure of having a card though. Jack Fee,Ed Kennedy,Tex Hoyle and Pat Kilhullen were all born in the same town and all but one of the six were basically lifelong residents
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Pickles Dillhoefer<br />Rivington Bisland<br />Astyanax Douglass<br />Dick Pole<br />Bob "Death to Flying Things" Ferguson<br />Fats Fothergill<br />Symphony Ciaffone<br />Tho Only Nolan (little did they know there was another one to come!)<br />Live Oak Taylor<br />Jennings Poindexter<br />Lou "The Nervous Greek" Skizas<br />Moses "The Rabbi of Swat" Solomon <br />Nick "Tomato Face" Cullop<br />Foster Castleman<br />Garland Lawing<br />Guido Grilli<br />Dick Cox<br />Austin McHenry<br />Turkey Gross<br />Steve Shemo<br />Eli Grba (who I somehow met online and exchanged a few emails with)<br />"Stan the Man Unusual"<br />Kewpie Pennington<br />Pembroke Finlayson<br />Whammy Douglas<br />Dorsey Riddlemoser<br /><br />And, last but not least,<br /><br />Hilbilly Bildilli.<br /><br />I'll think of more; the list goes on and on.<br /><br />Jodi<br /><br />
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>howard</b><p>Jodi, by the looks of your list I think you may want to add Chicken Hawks and Sibby Sisti.
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Sure, why not! Also, one I forgot that has always made me laugh for no particular reason, Waddy MacPhee.
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Bill</b><p>I apologize for not listing a pre-war player but this player immediately popped into my mind when I read the thread title. He played for the Orioles, maybe other teams at least in the late 80's early 90's. Something about the name Larry Sheets just sounds like it's not real.<br><br>Change your socks, drink water, and drive on.
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Along your lines, Bill, I always felt the same way about Rance Mullinicks and Rusty Kuntz. I mean, come on!<br /><br />And, although it's FB as opposed to BB, what about Dante "Gluefingers" Lavelli? Do you think anyone ever called up the Lavelli residence and asked, "ARE Gluefingers available?"?!
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Richard L.</b><p>Don't know if this one has been mentioned, check it out. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br /><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/RUSTY-KUNTZ-1985-Topps-73-PSA-10_W0QQitemZ140174883205QQihZ004QQcategoryZ55928QQ rdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/RUSTY-KUNTZ-1985-Topps-73-PSA-10_W0QQitemZ140174883205QQihZ004QQcategoryZ55928QQ rdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem</a>
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Jim Dale</b><p>Joe Rudi that is...A's outfielder later with the Angels, from my home town and was the first major league player I met.
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>You guys have done very well!!!!<br /><br />Only on HOFer...<br /><br /><br />I love seeing Austin McHenry up there, what a story. I have one of his cards. I have autographs of Ed Abatticio, Spec Toporcer and Larry Yount. I wrote Mr. Yount, he was warming up on the mound, in the game, hurt his arm, was confident he'd get back up next year so he owned up to the arm pain, then he never got back to the show.<br /><br />Seeing Milan and Donlin up there is good, and Moonlight.<br /><br />Reulbach should be in the HOF, he shouldn't be obscure. Smead Jolly shouldn't be obscure, all true fans should know about him.<br /><br /><br />Let me add one name to the bunch... Tillie Shafer. He's in the Sporting Life set, but not much else. He was pretty effective for Mr. McGraw in 1912, coming off the bench, filling in, one of the better on base percentages that season, a player either unknown, or forgotten about.
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Darrell</b><p>Joe Charboneau --- GO Super Joe--Tribe ROY 1980
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Jeremy</b><p>Hub Perdue... T206 Southern Leaguer, who also appears in the Cracker Jack series. He grew up in the community in which I live and played ball a few miles away... (Nashville)<br><br>~ Jeremy ~
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Ken W.</b><p>Good trivia answers:<br />Ned Williamson, the single-season HR King before Ruth. He held the record of 27 HR's for 35 years - one year longer than Ruth's 60 stood. Another is Chief Owen Wilson, who still holds the single-season triples record at 36. Wish the present day game lent itself to someone challenging that one.<br /><br />As for a great modern day named player: How about Stubby Clap? Played for the Cards in the late 1990's.
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Mark</b><p>Dummy Hoy<br />Hippo Vaughn<br />Bubbles Hargrave
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p> Ken,an even interesting bit of trivia is that when Ruth broke Williamsons record most people didnt know it. Buck Freeman who hit 25 homers in 1899 was interviewed right before Ruth broke the record and became "known" again because they thought he was the single season record holder. So when Ruth hit is 26th homer that year on september 8th he was crowned by many as the new single season home run king when he actually wasnt the single season leader until september 24th when he hit his 28th. Somewhere in a book i have is an excerpt of the Freeman article and it was interesting to read his thoughts about it
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Ken W.</b><p>John<br />Cool story. If I'm not mistaken, September 8th is the same date that McGwire broke Maris' record with #62. Merely a coincidence? <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>DD</b><p>Sidd Finch. So obscure, no one has seen or heard of him in years.
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>Jeremy, you Nashville Vol fan... please email me at your convenience. Thanks.<br /><br />FW II
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Hub Perdue had a great nickname, too, if I recall! "The Gallatin Squash"! <br /><br />Ahh, Stubby Clapp, the little guy with the big heart. He's adored in the minor league towns in which he played. A fellow Canadian, Stubby is from Windsor, Ontario, just across the river from Detroit.
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>David Goff</b><p>The "Hudman" Rex Hudler is a family friend and one of my favorite players. That's me on the left (the dork) in 1988. It's pretty cool that Rex is on the game MLB The Show 2007 as a announcer.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb150/sdf3dag/Misc/rex.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Piano Legs Gore.
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