New card nominations…..suggestions

Yeah I’m about to run out for a few hours but I can suggest some years for them. I’ll do it tonight and edit the previous post

Yeah I’m about to run out for a few hours but I can suggest some years for them. I’ll do it tonight and edit the previous post

COOL - that is actually helpful-

2021 Corbin Burnes' Cy Young season may be the best Brewer pitching year ever. .94 whip, fewest HR/9 of any starter in baseball, most strikeouts/9 of any player. That would really help the Brewer franchise.

1994 Steve Ontiveros Oak. Would be a No*SP 1.03 whip 5L

Interested in adding some players with their first 1 ratings? Won't be high priced but these are interesting cards
Calling old Mets fans - 1980 Doug Flynn. Not much of a hitter, but this would be his first 1, 2b108
1980 Ken Reitz STLouis 3b110
1980 Tony Armas Oakland RF110(-3) CF2
1972 Ed Brinkman Det ss107. He was known as a defensive specialist, but has no current 1s.
1972 George Boomer Scott Boston 1B112
1977 Ellis Valentine Montreal RF 110(-5) or 1978 will be unlike his current cards because this one will be his first defensive 1, RF1(-5)12, a balanced 1L card with 8BP HR vs Righties, unlike his current 7L and 3L, and will be a max 3 game injury risk. 16 speed

Kudos to the Shoeless Joe nom. My uncle lived in Greenville, S.C. where Shoeless had his liquour store. we lived in Augusta where Ty Cobb had built the Shirley Hotel named after his daughter. I remember going to Joe's liquour store as a kid and my dad saying this store was owned by the 3rd best hitter of all time. Shoeless had died a few years earlier. both building still stand and I think are designated historic landmarks. Joe's is no longer a liquour store and the Shirley Hotel has quite an infamous history. it is now The Cobb House. an apartment building in downtown Augusta

i know this was a long time ago, so more modern players wouldnt have been in his list, but just curious, if Shoeless Joe was #3 in your dad's eyes, who were #1 and #2 ?

some duo from Cobb, Hornsby, Ruth ?

other ?

Cobb, Ruth. don't recall him mentioning Hornsby or Wagner. he liked Kaline, Ted Williams, Gehrig and always said Gehringer was the greatest 2b. as for Pitcher's he liked Dean, Hubbell, Ford and loved knuckle-ball pitchers like Wilhelm and Niekro. He could throw one. ball would dart sideways but he couldn't control it enough for facing batters.