Interesting footnotes - short careers, weird names, etc

[Potomac Yank]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

For J.B.'s #13 up there....

I got this years ago... he was a pretty good ballplayer.

And yes, Joe, that is Al Gionfriddo hauling in a 415' fly ball.

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Kind of got the feeling that it was Al.
I wasn't at the sixth game, but me, and three other school mates played hooky from school, and attended the first game of the 1947 series at Yankees stadium.
We sat in the right field bleachers ... Spec Shea vs Ralph Branca.
Jackie Robinson's first W. S. game. ... Thanks for the memory.

[mikedenero]

There's a 1961 Carroll Hardy card out there somewhere -- he is famous for pinch-hitting for both Ted Williams AND Roger Maris!

[tbob]

Then there's Turkey Mike Donlin who McGraw once said was the greatest hitter he ever saw. He is probably the best hitter not in the Hall of Fame (not counting JJ) and would be in there if he hadn't spent the better part of a year jailed for assault and left baseball a couple of times for the stage (Broadway).