Celebrating Prewar Non-HOF players with 2000+ career hits

[brianp-beme]

It is approximately the time to celebrate those Prewar major league players who have not been named to the HOF, but were able to end up with 2000 or more hits. Sure, some of these players were compilers, but they had the skills and stamina to achieve such a long-term goal, and deserve a little spot in the headlights (I might be confusing these players with deer. Also, Rob Deer, whose career was much later and only managed 853 hits in 11 seasons, swinging the bat as if he were his last name in headlights, does not qualify for this list).

So show one or more cards from someone on this list. Bob Elliot has an asterisk by his name as he started his career in 1939 during the Prewar era, but does not appear to have any cards until the late 1940's. He is included here as a favor to all the Bobs within the hobby. I like to call these folks Hobby Bobs. (Edited to add that it appears he has a card in the amorphous 1939-46 Exhibits set, and as such, the asterisk will remain attached, despite the appearance of this enlarged amorphous item).

I will not be happy until we have card representations of everyone on the list, including some of those tougher to come by 19th century ball knockers. I will strike out (the opposite of making contact with a bat) their listed hit total when the player's cards have been posted. Feel free to post cards of any player that has already been posted as well.


PLAYER - TOTAL CAREER HITS


Doc Cramer - 2705

Lave Cross - 2645

George Van Haltren - 2539

Jimmy Ryan - 2512

Bill Dahlen - 2461

Stuffy McInnis - 2405

Joe Judge - 2352

Jake Daubert - 2326

Charlie Grimm - 2299

Jimmy Dykes - 2256

Patsy Donovan - 2253

Tommy Corcoran - 2252

Fred Tenney - 2231

Joe Kuhel - 2212

Stan Hack - 2193

Sherry Magee - 2169

Dick Bartell - 2165

Hal Chase - 2158

Ed Konetchy - 2150

Tommy Leach - 2143

Wally Moses - 2138

Buddy Myer - 2131

Herman Long - 2128

Clyde Milan - 2100

Jimmy Sheckard - 2084

Ed McKean - 2083

George J. Burns - 2077

Dixie Walker - 2064

Bobby Veach - 2063

Bob Elliott* - 2061

Bob Johnson - 2051

Dummy Hoy - 2045

Jack Glasscock - 2040

George H. Burns - 2015


I will start by getting one of the two often confused George Burns boys out of the way, this one being George H. Burns, who happens to be at the bottom of the list. This is his 1930 Zeenut card when playing with the Missions in the PCL.


Brian

[Hankphenom]

I would have thought there would be a lot more.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

I would have thought there would be a lot more.

I thought the same when I was compiling the list from Wikipedia's career hit list page. They did make it easy for me by highlighting all the Hall of Famers, and it was just a process of eliminating all the Postwar players.

Brian

[stutor]

Fun (and educational) thread!

[Casey2296]

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McInnis and Leach
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[Jay Wolt]

Here's one of "Pebbly Jack"

[GeoPoto]

Joseph I. "Joe" Judge. First baseman with the Washington Senators in 1915-1932. 2,352 hits and 71 home runs in 20 MLB seasons. 1924 World Series champion. In 1924, as Washington won the AL pennant and the World Series, he had one of his better years as he posted a .393 OBP with 71 runs scored and 79 RBI's in 593 plate appearances. He finished his career with the Boston Red Sox in 1933-1934. He may have been the basis for the character of Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, whose author dated Judge's daughter in the 1940's.



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[4815162342]

Great thread!

[collectt205]

Jimmy Sheckard
Back is a nice green American Beauty too!

[TheBig6]

[GeoPoto]

Jesse Clyde "Deerfoot" Milan. Outfielder for the Washington Senators in 1907-1922. 2,100 hits, 17 home runs, and 495 stolen bases in 16 MLB seasons. 2-time AL stolen base leader, including a then record 88 in 1912. His career OBP was .353. Managed the Washington Senators in 1922.

[SAllen2556]

Bobby Veach. I wrote this in a similar thread, but Bobby Veach is the greatest Detroit Tiger that Tiger fans never heard of.

From SABR: Bobby Veach was one of the truly great RBI men of the late Deadball Era, easily leading the major leagues in runs driven in over the twelve years, 1913 to 1924, that he was a full time player. Veach drove in over 100 runs in a season six times, hit 30 or more doubles eight times and smacked ten or more triples ten years in a row. In all, Veach played for 14 major league seasons and hit .300 or better ten times, finishing with a lifetime .310 batting average.

He was also a member of what Bill James called Baseball's greatest outfield ever, consisting of Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, and Veach.

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[GeoPoto]

(Submitting this to back up the beautiful Diamond Stars Kuhel submitted by Molenick.)

Joseph A. "Joe" Kuhel (pronounced "Cool"). First baseman for the Washington Senators in 1930-1937 and 1944-1946. 2,212 hits and 131 home runs in 18 MLB seasons. He had 107 RBIs in Washington's pennant-winning 1933 season, but his best season was probably 1936 as he posted an OBP of .392 with 118 RBIs and 107 runs scored in 660 plate appearances. He managed the Washington Senators in 1948-49.

[jayshum]

Jake Daubert

[jayshum]

Dixie Walker

[jayshum]

Wally Moses

[brianp-beme]

Doubling down on Wally Moses with his 8x the normal card size (8 x 10") 1938 Dixie Lid Premium. There are 7 players combined (Carl Hubbell is in both sets) represented in the 1937 and 1938 issues, and Wally is the only non-HOF. Before this thread, I knew that Wally was no schlub, but now I know he was 2K hit man.

Related to this thread, I will point out that Wally has more career hits than these other players in the sets...Carl Hubbell (no duh), Bob Feller(no duh part two) and Gabby Hartnett (duh-huh?).

By the way, these Dixie Lid Premiums are suitable for framing...they are gorgeous! I only have Wally, but the bonus with him is that he is definitely the least expensive baseball subject.


Brian

[brianp-beme]

Down to final subject...Tommy Corcoran.

And like I mentioned previously, feel free to post any items you have/cool ones you have seen of the players already shown. It is a celebration of these individuals, and what party would be complete without some party crashers?

Brian