When commons are not commons - the end

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Originally Posted by Chuck9788

Commons are not "common" people.

Putting together my collection of Cubs all-time greats and notables over the past couple decades (nothing individually extraordinary, all 1900s+ currently) has allowed me to really dig into personalities that make up the club's history.

A slew of these guys are players that joined the Cubs post-RC and they're commons because their main Cubs contributions are simply they got a big chunk of innings/games/at-bats regardless of results. Some guys are just interesting and never did anything in their careers that stand out, making their RC's pretty much commons.

Hal Jeffcoat has a 1951 Bowman RC that's never been in much demand that I know of. He was a cruddy CF'r for some cruddy Cubs teams 1948-1953 and became a cruddy pitcher for the team from 1954-1955 until being traded to CIN to pitch for them. Nothing in his stats make him a Cubs great, but the guy went from the field to the mound with only an off-season in between his change of career path.

Poking around in the history of the team has sent me on the hunt for cards of all kinds of vintage that would seem to be forgettable commons.