As the 1924 season reached August, the Senators were in the thick of the pennant race, a new experience for this team. The Senators had HOFers Goose Goslin in LF and Sam Rice in RF, but CF was a problem. On August 8th, Clark "The Old Fox" Griffith acquired 26-year-old Earl McNeely from Sacramento of the PCL for $50,000 and slumping CF Wid Matthews. A good defensive CF, diminutive McNeely batted .330 in 43 games over the remainder of the regular season. While he hit only .222 in the 1924 WS, McNeely's only RBI, a bad-hop single in the bottom of the 12th inning of Game 7, made him a hero and made WaJo the winning pitcher of Washington's only WS Championship, until 2019.
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Seeking very scarce/rare cards for my Sam Rice master collection, e.g., E210 York Caramel Type 2 (upgrade), 1931 W502, W504 (upgrade), W572 sepia, W573, W575-1 E. S. Rice version, 1922 Haffner's Bread, 1922 Keating Candy, 1922 Witmor Candy Type 2 (vertical back), 1926 Sports Co. of Am. with ad & blank backs. Also T216 Kotton "NGO" card of Hugh Jennings. Also 1917 Merchants Bakery & Weil Baking cards of WaJo.
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