Accurate Vintage Stats: where to go?

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Posted By: runscott

Gathering stats for the OJ HOF'ers seemed simple at first - I simply took the stats from the HOF site. But then when I started looking for stats on more obscure players it became a nightmare. I hated to even check the other sites for fear of the random numbers I would find, but did for Rusie only - and my suspicions were correct.

The next step will be even more difficult: trying to find something interesting to say about A.P. Tuckerman's career when I can't even find evidence of his existence (baseball or otherwise) other than an OJ baseball card indicating he was a pitcher with St. Paul.

But it could be worse - if not for the full name listings in Lemke's catalog I would be totally hosed. There are so many mispellings, left out first names, etc. on the actual cards.

.........Groan