Send me your card add suggestions! I get to add 5.

Came accross an interesting player:

Lave Cross https://www.baseball-reference.com/play ... la01.shtml

Played 21 yrs, 2600+ hits. Had a few good years and played different positions.

Tim, that 1894 card would be a nice addition as a deadball 3b depending on the D and the speed.

Tim, that 1894 card would be a nice addition as a deadball 3b depending on the D and the speed.

3b-1e65
Runs 1-14

Never mind.

That error number would likely be cut in half by Strat, if/when the card made it into the ATG set.

1902 card is similar offensively and a 3b-2e33.

Read a bio on Cross that said he started out as a catcher and--since there were no positional restrictions on mitts...took his catcher's mitt out to the field. At least for most of the 1890s. Not sure when that changed.

I would suggest 1902 instead of 1894, given that 1894 was such an outlier year in baseball.

Incredible suggestions everyone - I have also been soliciting suggestions in some of the leagues I'm in and it's an embarrassment of riches. I apologize in advance for not picking your suggestion, because given the volume here the odds are against any one choice. But I love them all.

Scorehouse very helpfully pointed out that general nomination for new cards open June 1st (Monday). I have been taking my time here, but I realize I should get my picks in before Monday so you will know if a card you would like to nominate there gets picked by me first, allowing you to go in another direction. I also hope this thread helped stimulate some thinking for that nomination phase.

I will still be taking suggestions here (and in any league you happen to be in with me) until late Saturday night Pacific time. i will send my picks to strat late Sunday night / early Monday morning Pacific time.

-matt

1966 Jim Nash, RHSP, A's 12-1 2.06 1.050 Career bests in W%, ERA, HR9 & H9. Near career bests in WHIP & SO/9. 2nd in AL ROY voting. Career journeyman put it all together for a couple of seasons for the up and coming A's before getting derailed by arm trouble. 3L. No BP singles vs. lefties and no HR chances on entire card. No ATG card.

Ran across this bit of trivia about Jim Nash today ...

Rose amassed at least 10 at-bats against 363 different pitchers. Astoundingly, he collected a hit against 362 of them.

There was just one exception.

“I did what, now?” said Jim Nash, reached by phone at his home in Atlanta’s far northwest suburbs.

It’s a stretch to suggest that Pete Rose’s nemesis was a 6-foot-5, 220-pound right-hander unironically nicknamed Jumbo Jim who broke into the majors as a sensation with the Kansas City A’s in 1966 before a torn rotator cuff robbed him of his fastball. Rose and Nash didn’t face each other enough times to form anything resembling a rivalry. They did not do battle with a pennant on the line. There were other pitchers Rose faced more often — Koufax, Randy Jones, Al Downing — who held him under a .200 average.

The fact that Rose had at least 10 at-bats against 363 different pitchers and got a hit against all but one says more about Rose than it says about Jumbo Jim.

It was only 10 at-bats. But Nash retired Rose all 10 times. It’s a claim to fame nonetheless. It’s a bit of bar trivia that even Nash didn’t know.

‘92 Van Slyke !