Links to the past.............

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by spec

Suspect you mean Bill Narleski, not Ray.

I did mean the dad not the son. Thanks

[HRBAKER]

Mark Buehrle(amongst other current players) played with Harold Baines for the White Sox in 2001, who played with Minnie Minoso for the White Sox in 1980, who played with Al Benton for the Indians in 1949, who played for Connie Mack with the A's in 1934, who made his debut in 1886.

I believe the aforementioned Al Benton was the only man to surrender a home run to both Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle. I think.

[z28jd]

I posted this awhile back, but I had a line of 10 players with the last one being Roger Clemens, that went from 1871-2007. You could add whatever teammate to Clemens to keep it going but here is the original picture I posted here. I was only using cards I owned and since I don't really collect cards from the 20's-50's there weren't many choices in my collection so you could probably do it with less players.

Anson
Dahlen
Wheat
Miljus
L.Waner
Vaughan
Robinson
Drysdale
Buckner
Clemens

[tjb1952tjb]

Thanks for your interesting responses. It's still amazing to me to think that Bobby Doerr, 94 in April, played with and against the likes of Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio (they both retired after the 1951 season, Doerr due to a bad back at the young age of 33), Ted Williams (Doerr actually preceded Williams as a Red Sox by 2 years), Lefty Grove, Bob Feller (Feller rookie 1936; Doerr rookie 1937)), and many other HOFer's of a bygone era..........and many players that had direct linkage to the early 20th/late 19th century. Amazing..................

[Vintagedegu]

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