Prewar cards of 20th century Non-HOF players with career batting average of .300+

[brianp-beme]

You are being offered a perhaps once in a lifetime opportunity to show off Prewar cards you have of Non-HOF players that had a career batting average of .300 or better. I created this list utilizing the baseball-reference.com listing of players that had both (I believe) a minimum of 3000 Plate Appearances and 500 games played, but it might just be one or the other. I eliminated all the Hall of Famers from the list, because they get enough publicity as it is, the Negro League players because of the lack of prewar card availabilty for most of those players, and the 19th century players whose careers did not bleed into the 20th century, well, because this is the list I wanted to create. There are plenty of well known players on the list with prewar cards (Joe Jackson tops the wantlist of many a collector as well as this list), but I also decided that the relatively low 3000 Plate Appearances/500 game minimum corralled in a fair amount of players that rarely get talked about, and some of them have very few traditional prewar cards.

So show us a card or two or what you have of as many of the 60 players on the list that you want, and feel free to show cards or players that have already been shown by others. Some players only have a prewar card or two (Chick Stahl and Emmet Heidrick are a couple of several examples), so things might get a little sticky to show a card of each of these 60 players. Let me know if I overlooked someone that should be on this list (that qualify under my 'strict as a broom closet' guidelines listed above), and after serious investigation of the matter, I will add them to the list, if indeed warranted.

I will place an asterisk by each player that has been shown. And no talk about WAR...this is strictly an old school 'Make BA, not WAR" thread.

Brian


Joe Jackson .356 *

Lefty O'Doul .349 *

Riggs Stephenson .336 *

Mike Donlin .333 *

Bob Fothergill .326

Babe Herman .325 *

Joe Harris .317 *

Lew Fonseca .316 *

Bibb Falk .315 *

Cecil Travis .314 *

Jacques Fournier .313 *

Eddie Morgan .313 *

Barney McCosky .312 *

Johnny Hodapp .311 *

Bing Miller .311 *

Bill Jacobson .311 *

Taffy Wright .311 *

Rip Radcliff .311 *

Ginger Beaumont .311 *

Benny Kauff .311 *

Emil Meusel .310 *

Elmer Smith .310 *

Bobby Veach .310 *

John Stone .310 *

Bob Meusel .309 *

Jack Tobin .309 *

Virgil Davis .308 *

Harvey Hendrick .308 *

Johnny Frederick .308 *

Stuffy McInnis .308 *

Joe Vosmik .307 *

Freddy Leach .307 *

Johnny Moore .307 *

George H. Burns .307 *

Pat Duncan .307 *

Zeke Bonura .307 *

Dixie Walker .306 *

Chick Stahl .305

Charlie Hollocher .305 *

Curtis Walker .304 *

Charlie Jamieson .303 *

Cy Seymour .303 *

Jake Daubert .303 *

George Harper .303 *

Buddy Myer .303 *

Eddie Brown .303 *

Hal Trosky .302 *

Ben Chapman .302 *

Carl Reynolds .302 *

Sammy Hale .302 *

Homer Summa .302 *

Rube Bressler .302 *

Stan Hack .301 *

George Stone .301 *

Patsy Donovan .301

Johnny Mostil .301 *

Wally Berger .300 *

Emmet Heidrick .300

Earl Sheely .300 *

Ethan Allen .300 *


...and to start off with, here are cards of some players who have been pre-asterisked for your protection.


Buddy Myer - Diamond Stars from 3 different years
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George Stone - E92 Nadja misprint
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Charlie Hollocher - Haffner Tay-to Loaf and E220 National Caramel with 3 different backs
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Rube Bressler - W514
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Cy Seymour - M116 Sporting Life with missing/faded color
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