Who are some of your favorite "forgotten" players?

[slidekellyslide]

Clarence Mitchell...he had an unspectacular career in the majors and is probably mostly remembered for making 5 outs in two at bats in the 1920 World Series...he is also the last legal spitballer in the majors. He was known as Mr Baseball in Nebraska though and played many years in the minor leagues in and around Nebraska.



I am also fond of George Johnson...he played for the Nebraska Indians ball team, then the Lincoln minor league club...finally making the major leagues..he also played in the Federal League and the Pacific Coast League. He was murdered over a dice game in Des Moines, Iowa shortly after his playing days ended.

[Brian Van Horn]

The model of consistency, Jake Daubert:

[Theoldprofessor]

Moses Yellow Horse, considered by most historians to be the first full-blooded Native American (Pawnee) to play major league baseball. Pitched well for the Pirates in 1921-22. But never more notoriously than when, in a 1922 exhibition game, he beaned the famous peacemaker Ty Cobb, who had spent much of his only at bat hurling racist insults at him. Right between the eyes.

But hung around too much with one Walter (Rabbit) Maranville, who taught him the delights of alcohol. Became an admitted alcoholic, and was out of the majors for good the following year.

Appears on an Exhibit card (1922) and on a Zeenuts PCL (1924)

[Kawika]