Bill Bergen

[Balticfox]

He's clearly not the worst player ever. Cincinnati and Brooklyn would not have kept him on the roster for a total of eleven seasons if he wasn't actually a pretty good player overall.

[brianp-beme]

Here is an E101 of Bill Bergen. With his batting, he must have been a dang fine catcher. In his baseball-reference website listing under his positions played, it shows a 'H' designation in 3 years, which indicates he was used as either a pinch hitter or pinch runner those years. He usually had a few stolen bases each year, not too horrible for a catcher, so I think perhaps he was used as a pinch runner. It is also possible that he was brought in as a pinch hitter just to bunt. It looks like the one thing he did decently as a hitter was the sacrifice hit, averaging just over 10 a year while only playing, on average, less than 60% of his team's games each year.

I also like his T206 card overall, but the large, radioactive buttons on his jersey have always distracted me a little.

Brian (shiny buttons can do that to a fellow)