Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

You guys have done very well!!!!

Only on HOFer...


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.

Seeing Milan and Donlin up there is good, and Moonlight.

Reulbach should be in the HOF, he shouldn't be obscure. Smead Jolly shouldn't be obscure, all true fans should know about him.


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.