PREWAR Era: AM = andycummings65, The Last Druid, bontomn

Random thoughts:

1/ 1929 Pinky Whitney
2/ 1930 Joe Judge
3/ 1924 Topper Rigney
4/ 1936 Gus Suhr

Pitchers:

1/ 1943 Denny Galehouse

1929 George Grantham
1926 Wally Schang
1921 Austin McHenry
1930 Pie Traynor
1928 Max Bishop
1938 Ernie Lombardi
1926 Bibb Falk
1926 Bubbles Hargrave
1928 Heinie Manush
1929 Dale Alexander
1928 Goose Goslin
1922 Bing Miller
1935 Joe Vosmik
1921 Bobby Veach
1923 Edd Roush

1938 Dizzy Dean - Would be a good five day starter
1937 Cliff Melton
1938 Bill Lee
1933 Monte Pearson
1935 Bill Swift
1933 Waite Hoyt
1940 Freddie Fitzsimmons
1933 Larry French
1931 George Earnshaw
1932 Lon Warneke
1933 Hal Schumacher
1935 Cy Blanton
1928 Garland Braxton
1939 Ted Lyons
1935 Jesse Haines
1923 Dolf Luque
1920 Eddie Rommel

Little info on one of the nominees Bill Bevens...
For 8  2⁄3 innings in Game 4 of the 1947 World Series Bevens had held the Dodgers hitless despite giving up a Series record ten walks. The Yankees were nursing a 2–1 lead. With one out to go for the first no-hitter in Series history, he walked right fielder Carl Furillo and then (intentionally) pinch-hitter Pete Reiser. Dodger manager Burt Shotton sent in Al Gionfriddo to pinch-run for Furillo and Eddie Miksis for the injury-slowed Reiser, and aging Cookie Lavagetto to pinch-hit for leadoff man Eddie Stanky. With two outs and two on in the bottom of the ninth, Lavagetto swung and missed for strike one but then on Bevens' second (and last) pitch lined a double off the right field wall scoring both runners and winning the game for the Dodgers 3-2 with their only hit. It was called the Cookie game.

How about one of Zeke Bonura's White Sox cards?

1936: .330 12 138 .426 .482 .908 39 doubles, bulletproof. His 138 RBI was a White Sox team record for an astounding 62 years until broken by Albert Belle in 1998 with 152 RBI.

1937: .345 19 100 .412 .573 .984 with 41 doubles in just 502 AB

(BTW, Albert Belle should have a 1998 White Sox card, as it was arguably the best single season offensive performance in White Sox history: .328 49 152 .399 .655 1.055. In addition to his 49 HRs, he had 48 doubles and 2 triples, giving him 99 extra base hits, for a league leading 399 total bases. He led the league in SLG and OPS and had a a league leading OPS+ of 172 and a WAR of 7.1, tops among A.L. OFers.)


Also, how about Johnny Mostil from the 1926 White Sox?

1926: .328 4 41 .415 .467 .882 with 41 doubles. Led A.L. with 35 stolen bases and was 2nd in MVP voting. He's the only CFer in baseball history to record a putout on a foul ball. A sure "1" in CF and a good leadoff man, likely to carry a reasonable price tag.

I like 26 Mostil too. Would've liked to have seen the 1926 White Sox added instead of the 32 Phillies.