wanted OBAKS and Zeenuts

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Posted By: joe maples

Hello, just started to collect these cards for players who made it to the majors with Detroit team. I cross referenced with my Detroit checklist of all players who played with Detroit and the checklist for OBAKS and zeenuts. I have apretty good idea of the players. If you have any just send me a list I can determine if they played for Detroit, I hope correctly.

Thanks joe

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Posted By: Joann

Hey Joe,

In response to a similar attempt to figure out which Obak players eventually played for Detroit, Brian Scantland sent me this great link. Hope it helps. Before this I had to enter each name of an Obak for sale into baseball-ref and trying to figure out which guys may have been Detroit players. Not exactly a one-to-one lookup, plus time consuming. I'm still doing it for other minor league sets, but this was a big help in Obaks.

Joann

http://www.vintagecardboard.com/ref_obkmajors.asp

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Posted By: Brian

Joe,

We were trading emails last week on this subject, and I totally forgot about that website. Then I couldn't find your email... Thanks Joann for posting the link.

Brian

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Posted By: joe maples

Thanks for the link, but I have to tell you I have on my list many more players who played for Detroit that are in the OBAK series. Here is what I did to find out. I have a book written by Fred Smith of the Detroit organization and he lists the 1st 1089 ballplayers who played for Detroit. This came out a few years ago, but definitely has all players who played in the 1910's thru 1930's in the majors which would include OBAK years of 1910 thru 1911. I'm on the road right now so I can't look at the book now. In about 3 weeks I will update on this list. On my 1909 OBAK list alone I have the following Browning, Dillon, Fisher, Smith(Heinie), Stovall, Wiggs, Willett and J. Williams.

The 1910 list is Browning, Dillon, 2 variations, Fisher 3 variation, H. Smith 2 variations, Willett 2 variations and Williams 2 variations.

The 1911 list is Browning, Burns, Casey, Cutshaw, Davis, Dillon, Erickson, Frisk, Hall, Harris, Hetling, Higgins, James, jensen, Kane, Miller, Pernoll, Powell, Raymond, Ross, Schmidt, Shaw, Shea, Skeels, Spencer, Steen, Stewart, Stovall, Thomas, Vitt, Ward, Wiggs, Willett.

I did not find Perry, Sugedon, Zamloch in the Detroit book by Smith.

I hope my list contains players that did not play for Detroit, will make it easier.
I'm sure this list has errors, I just started investigating the Detroit connection.

Thats all I can do right now.

Joe

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Posted By: BlackSoxFan

Agreed...i'm not sure why but this list omits a vast number of players and teams.

Regards,

Black Sox Fan

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