[Leon]

+1 I don't remember WaJo, Rice and other HOF'ers to be common players?

But it's all good anyway!

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

"Leon says that every thread should include the pic of a card. Better yet, IMHO, every thread should include a WaJo or Sam Rice card, when applicable!"

Val, I generally support your "every thread should include a Walter or a Rice card" extension of Leon's rule (BTW, those two Witmors are fabulous) and if it goes to a vote and I get one you have it. But here we have our peerless moderator, in generous defiance of his own type-collecting tendencies, calling for "common" cards, thereby opening the door for those of without an extensive run of fabulous Walter and Sam cards, to get a word in edgewise. Perhaps not the best place for your new rule. Nome sane.

(I'm kidding keep the Walter and Sam E-cards coming.)

Meanwhile, here's a very common player who also happened to play his entire MLB career in Washington like our HoF hero's (I'm ignoring Sam's final year).

Raymond C. "Ray" Morgan. Second baseman for the Washington Senators in 1911-1918. 630 hits and 88 stolen bases in 8 MLB seasons. His career OBP was .348. His best season was 1913 as he posted a .369 OBP with 19 stolen bases in 565 plate appearances. He has an odd link to Babe Ruth: in 1917, he led off a game by drawing a 4-pitch walk from Boston starter Ruth, who was then ejected from the game by the home plate umpire. Ruth was replaced by Ernie Shore and Morgan was thrown out attempting to steal on Shore's first pitch. Shore then retired the next 26 batters he faced. Shore's "perfect game" was eventually downgraded to a "combined no-hitter" by subsequent revisions in the MLB criteria.

(I assume this means that Ruth was also "credited" with a combined no-hitter, which is kind of unusual if you think about it.)