Negro leaguers

[samosa4u]

By the way, I found this book at my local library and just started reading it last night!

[brianp-beme]

Here is a list of the Hall of Fame players who spent time in the Negro Leagues AND have (in some cases somewhat) readily available and affordable cards. Some of them just had brief stints, and the ones with asterisks in the list below played in the Negro Leagues post-1948, which I believe is the cut-off year for their Negro League stats to count as MLB stats...correct me if I am wrong.

Of course none of these players had USA distributed cards while playing for the Negro League. The readily available USA distributed cards for these players would be ones issued when they had made it to the big leagues.

Satchell Paige
Monte Irvin
Larry Doby
Jackie Robinson
Roy Campanella
Minnie Minoso
Willie Mays
Ernie Banks *
Hank Aaron *


Brian

[brianp-beme]

I just realized that you could field a superb starting nine with the players in the above list, with just three players not playing positions they were known for (though they did play them in the majors, and all three of these players were pretty versatile and could probably have handled any position).

P - Satchell Paige
C - Roy Campanella
1B - Monte Irvin (played 108 games at 1B)
2B - Jackie Robinson
3B - Minnie Minoso (played 223 games at 3B)
SS - Ernie Banks
LF - Larry Doby (played 22 games in LF)
CF - Willie Mays
RF - Hank Aaron


Brian