Banned for Life

[ErikV]

With the news of Donald Sterling being banned for life, I thought it would be
neat to post cards of all baseball players on the banned list. The current list
is 30. There have been others (ie Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Steve Howe,
George Steinbrenner), but they have been reinstated.

Per Wikipedia here's the list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...eague_Baseball

x-George Bechtel
x-Jim Devlin
x-George Hall
Al Nichols
x-Bill Craver
x-Richard Higham (To date, Higham is the only umpire banned for life.)
Joseph Creamer
X-Jack O'Connor
x-Harry Howell
x-Hal Chase
x-Heinie Zimmerman
x-Chick Gandil
x-"Shoeless" Joe Jackson
x-Eddie Cicotte
x-Lefty Williams
x-Fred McMullin
x-Swede Risberg
x-Happy Felsch
x-Buck Weaver
x-Joe Gedeon
x-Eugene Paulette
x-Benny Kauff
x-Lee Magee
x-Phil Douglas
x-Jimmy O'Connell
x-Cozy Dolan
x-William B. Cox (Phillies Owner)
x-Horace Fogel (Phillies Owner)
x-Pete Rose

I'll check off all the names of the cards that get posted.

ErikV

[shernan30]

Here's one I can contribute.

[Leon]

Joe Jackson and Co....

[Jacklitsch]

[dog*dirt]

Magee and Dolan together.

[Jacklitsch]

[packs]

Buck

[sniffy5]

Joe (in 1914)

[T206Collector]

One of my best signed pre-war cards....

[4815162342]

[The Nasty Nati]

...technically I don't think he was officially banned. But it's safe to say he wasn't allowed to have anything to do with Major League Baseball after the Black Sox Scandal.

[h2oya311]

You've got Gandil listed twice!!!

Here's Cicotte:

[Exhibitman]

[h2oya311]

I was late to the game on Cicotte, so now I'll be late to the game on Kauff! I didn't even know I had a Kauff!

[nolemmings]

Here's Chick and Magee:

[itjclarke]

If only Buck had just played out his career in the cozy/foggy PCL...

[rhettyeakley]

[Eric72]

I would have bet money that someone would have posted Rose before now.

[MW1]

Bill Craver - one of four to be banned for allegedly fixing games in the Louisville scandal of 1877.

[seattlerainiers]

1909 Seattle Turks, Northwestern League champs.
Lee Magee, far right.

[ullmandds]

peter cho...

[ullmandds]

or was it chao

[ullmandds]

or chaio?

[Jacklitsch]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

or was it chao

Yes

[bn2cardz]

Harry Howell:

[rhettyeakley]

Banned because he loved to drink and hated McGraw so much...



Seriously, his bio is pretty sad...
http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/3db5329e

[ErikV]

Here's the last two needed on the list. To my knowledge no cards were ever made of:

Jim Devlin
Richard Higham
Al Nichols
Joseph Creamer

Thanks for your participation.

ErikV

[tschock]

Originally Posted by seattlerainiers

1909 Seattle Turks, Northwestern League champs.
Lee Magee, far right.

A somewhat strange, but interestingly cropped photo. Love the little kid head at the bottom.

[nolemmings]

Jack O'Connor appears in the 1893 Just So set. It ought to be easy and cheap to track down one of those

[MW1]

Also, George Hall:

[MW1]

George Bechtel

[Leon]

Originally Posted by MW1

George Bechtel

Nice cards Mike...

[Angyale]

Not too many people know that O'Connor is in the M116 set as a player-manager. Although there are several poses, his OJs are tough. None of these are mine.

Eric

[arc2q]

Interesting tidbit from the Wikipedia entry you posted:

Horace Fogel, Philadelphia Phillies owner, was banned in 1912 for publicly asserting that the umpires favored the New York Giants and were making unfair calls against his team.

Those must have been some pretty strong words from him to be banned for life!

[ErikV]

I'm impressed with the Howell, Hall, Bechtel and O'Connor cards. I didn't know
cards existed of these players.

I'm going to tweak the post slightly and post photos of Cox, Fogel, and Paulette.

To finish off the list, does anyone have photos of:

Al Nichols
Joseph Creamer

ErikV

[Section103]

Great thread!

[ErikV]

Wikipedia link had these photos of Devlin and Higham.

Last two Nichols and Creamer.......anybody?

[E93]

JimB

[wonkaticket]

Great cards everyone!

[oldjudge]

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