The HoF and Walter Corson

[Brian Van Horn]

Here's an offbeat suggestion: try contacting George Vrechek to see if he can shed any light on the matter.

[Troy Kirk]

This is a question that has interested me in the past, so I looked into this myself a number of years ago. Since there is no mention of Corson in the major or minor league baseball records, that seemed funny since he said he was an ex-player. He also said he was a scout for a couple of different major league teams in the 1950s. A few years ago I contacted the SABR leader of the scout research and gave him the scouting info that Corson had mentioned in articles in the 1950s. The SABR guy told me there was no record of Corson being a scout either. The SABR guy mentioned that he has come across others who have said they were involved in MLB when they had in fact, not been.

I concluded that Corson had probably fabricated all his player/scout history. I wouldn't mind being wrong about this, but as far as I know there is no evidence to back up his stories in this regard.