New idea for a collection -- help me build the want list

[alanu]

Wally Pipp
Al Downing
Sadly, Donnie Moore

[teetwoohsix]

Maybe any player involved in the Chicago Black Sox scandal..............

[bcbgcbrcb]

Jack Chesbro during his 41-win season..........

[thxforthebp]

A couple more sad ones
Tim Crews
Steve Olin
Bobby Ojeda the only one to survive the accident

[Kawika]

Mustn't forget Harvey Haddix.

[baseball tourist]

John Rocker (embarrasing)

Jose Canseco (even more embarrasing)

Clemens

[jmk59]

Vic Wertz, who hit that long fly to centerfield so Willie Mays could make "The Catch".

J

[FrankWakefield]

In about nine years, when your son is older, you could add Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich to the list.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by frankwakefield

in about nine years, when your son is older, you could add fritz peterson and mike kekich to the list.

Too funny...!!!

[mcap100176]

George Brett for Pine Tar

Randy Johnson hitting the bird http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPxeGkPeR90


Chuck Finley & Tawny Kitaen http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/finleydec1.html


Mike Torrez for Bucky Dent HR

[sfmays24]

If you want to include Managers... how about Dusty Baker for taking Russ Ortiz out of Game #6 of the 2002 World Series when he had a shutout going... then, told him to take the ball when he left the mound as if the game was in the bag.

[Jantz]

Pete Rose

oops..I see now that he was already mentioned. Oh well, I guess Pete should have a post all for himself.

[uffda51]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

In about nine years, when your son is older, you could add Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich to the list.

Mike and Fritz. #6 on the ESPN list of all-time shcocking moments in baseball history.

All kidding aside, a great idea for a collection.

[mark evans]

Chuck Stobbs. He gave up a tape-measure homer to the Mick that is commemorated in the 1961 Topps set. I have the card signed by Stobbs (incidentally, one of the two major leaguers to have graduated from my high school, the other being Hank Foiles, his battery mate). Bought the card from Huggins and Scott store in Wheaton, MD many years ago.

[tbob]

Dang! Tawny Kitaen used to be such a babe, she looks horrible now, even discounting that it is a mug shot.

[rfurnish]

Hal Chase, Ty Cobb, & Tris Speaker have all been mentioned in game fixing discussions as well.

I have not seen Cobb on this list anywhere. May have missed it but heres my reason for a Cobb vote.

On May 15, 1912, Cobb assaulted a heckler, Claude Lueker, in the stands in New York. Lueker and Cobb had traded insults with each other through the first three innings, and the situation climaxed when Lueker called Cobb a "half-nigger." Cobb, in his discussion of the incident (My Life in Baseball: The True Record, Ty Cobb and Al Stump, Doubleday, 1961, pp. 131–135), avoided such explicit words, but alluded to it by saying the man was "reflecting on my mother's color and morals." Cobb stated in the book that he warned Highlanders manager Harry Wolverton that if something wasn't done about the man, there would be trouble. No action was taken. At the end of the sixth inning, after being challenged by teammates Sam Crawford and Jim Delahanty to do something about it, Cobb climbed into the stands and attacked Lueker, who it turns out was handicapped (he had lost all of one hand and three fingers on his other hand in an industrial accident). When onlookers shouted at Cobb to stop because the man had no hands, Cobb reportedly replied, "I don't care if he has no feet!"

guy above beat me by seconds

[tedzan]

Herb Score and Gil McDougald....both of these guys were never the same after that fateful night on May 7, 1957
at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium when McDougald's sharp line drive struck Score in the face.


TED Z

[iggyman]

I have one word for you and your son.........Peckinpaugh!!!

I believe that "Eight Errors" in a seven-game world series is more then qualified for enshrinement.

Lovely Day...

[wolterse]

I'm shocked that no one has mentioned this one but you have to include the chicago white sox players caught up in the 1919 world series scandal!

Eddie Cicotte, Buck Weaver, Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg, Lefty Williams, Joe Jackson, Hap Felsch, and Kid Gleason.

[canjond]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Herb Score and Gil McDougald....both of these guys were never the same after that fateful night on May 7, 1957
at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium when McDougald's sharp line drive struck Score in the face.


TED Z

You could also add McDougald to the list for the unfortunate circumstances surrounding him and Bob Cerv in batting practice.

[Steve D]

Mitch Williams - gave up Joe Carter's homerun in the 1993 World Series.


Steve

[slidekellyslide]

Len Koenecke was on the wrong side of a fire extinguisher that ended his life in midair over Toronto.

http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/....Len.Obit.html

It may be nearly impossible to find a card of his though as I think the 1932 NY Giants Schedule Postcards might be the only one he appeared on???

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Len Koenecke was on the wrong side of a fire extinguisher that ended his life in midair over Toronto.

http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/....Len.Obit.html

It may be nearly impossible to find a card of his though as I think the 1932 NY Giants Schedule Postcards might be the only one he appeared on???

I missed this thread the first time around. Thanks to Frank for bumping it.

They're not impossible to find, but damn difficult.

[ctownboy]

Well,

If you want some modern players whose cards would be easier to find and not cost too much, you could go after the players who have either admitted to taking steroids and/or banned PED's or those suspected of doing so.

This would allow you to have future Hall of Fame players, super stars, MVP's, tragiedies (Ken Caminiti SP?) along with regular guys who were just trying to get an edge to either make it to the Big Show or stay in the Majors a little longer.

You could use these guys as examples of what NOT to do and as a teaching tool. I have tried to do this with my Nephews (though I don't know how successful I have been since they consider it "preaching" to them).

Just an idea,

David

[cardinalcollector]

Dock Ellis, Steve Blass, Lyman Bostock, Daryl Kile, Josh Hancock, Flint Rhem, Mike Kekich, Fritz Peterson, Pete Rose, Don Wilson, Glenn Burke, Dave Dravecky, Charlie Peete, Harry Agannis, Mark Fidrych.

[Bosox Blair]

A few sad ones:

J.R. Richard

Kirby Puckett

Tony Conigliaro


Cheers,
Blair

[yanksfan09]

I don't think this one was mentioned : Ray Caldwell

I believe he was struck by lightning on the pitchers mound during a game, and went on to finish the game.

[kmac32]

All of the Cub teams since the last world series winning team. especially the 1969 Cubs.