A couple of names that I would put ahead of most of those on your 10-15 list:
Ed Walsh
Mordecai Brown
Frank Baker (vastly underrated; best third baseman before Eddie Matthews. I tend to think about the American league star cohort that came up between 1905-1910 as similar to the young National League cohort of 1951-1956, i.e. Cobb, Speaker, Collins vs. Mays, Aaron, Robinson. Baker is like the Ernie Banks of the group - through 1960, he was every bit as good as Mays or Aaron, just like Baker was through 1914)
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192/240 1933 Goudeys (Ruth #144, #149, Gehrig #92)
126/208 T205s
28/108? Diamond Stars
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