Series #1 Card set for players Pre 1930...who makes the 54 player cut?

[oldjudge]

If nicknames meant anything Bob Ferguson would lead the list.

[Throttlesteer]

It's hard to find too many areas where Lajoie was better than Speaker. Nickname or not, he easily cracks my top 10. Lajoie would be in the late teens for me.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

If nicknames meant anything Bob Ferguson would lead the list.

It's way up there, agreed.

[Leon]

Good lists. I might put Cobb ahead of Wags.....

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Top 10 Pre-1900

1. Spalding
2. Ward
3. Anson
4. Wright
5. Ewing
6. Thompson
7. Kelly
8. Nichols
9. Radbourn
10. Browning

Top 10 Post-1900

1. Ruth
2. Wagner
3. Cobb
4. Johnson
5. Gehrig
6. Young
7. Mathewson
8. Jackson
9. Hornsby
10. Lajoie

[Misunderestimated]

Not in any real order (sort of chronological):
A.19th century (or mostly)

1. H Wright (player-mgr-creator)
Spaulding (player-creator)
D. White
Anson
Galvin
Ward
Radbourn
Clarkson
McPhee
Browning
10. Caruthers (great 2 way player)
Ewing
Kelly
Ward
Keefe
Delahanty
Rusie
Connor
Nichols
Hamilton
20. C. Young
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1900-20
Dahlen
Crawford
Waddell
F. Clarke (player also mgr etc.)
25. JJ McGraw (mgr also player)
Wagner
Lajoie
Matty
.M. Brown
30 - Cobb
W.Johnson
J. Jackson
E Collins
Speaker
Evers-Tinker-Chance (one card?)
Alexander
Ruth
Heilman
. Hornsby
40. Gehrig
Foxx
Ott
Cochrane
Grove

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C.Mack (Mgr-- )
J. McCarthy (mgr)
C. Griffith (baseball lifer-- Player-manager-owner-etc,)
C. Comiskey (Same)
Bill Klem (Ump)
--
Negro-League/Cuban
O. Charleston
Pop Lloyd
Rube Foster
M. Dihigo
Smokey Joe Williams
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I think this about 54 and .... Miller Huggins maybe should be included instead he was a baseball lifer who died young (maybe because he had to manage Babe Ruth).