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Kevin CummingsHe's not really obscure, but probably not very well known either considering how long and how well he played the game. Roger "Doc" Cramer is a local hero in the Jersey shore area of Long Beach Island. He was a pretty good player in his day - 20 years, .296 career batting average, 2705 hits, won a World Series with Detroit in 1945.
He was also a very good outfielder, which won him the nickname "Flit" (after a popular mosquito insecticide of the day) because, like Bob Ferguson before him, he was "Death To Flying Things."