Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Grant Johnson last played in a professional baseball game in 1914 at the age of 41. That year he put on his New York Lincoln Giants uniform for 7 games and 33 plate appearances. Dad Johnson would slash .444/.531/.519 for the independent Giants. Stealing 2 bases, walking 4 times, and hitting 2 doubles. It was […]
Wilbur Good came up as a pitcher, but he quickly started seeing time in the field, and within a few years was exclusively an outfielder. There aren’t many statistics available for Good’s time spent as a pitcher, so it’s unclear exactly why he gave up throwing the rock so quickly. Still, he did, and within […]
Harry Wolter was a fiery gentleman, though not in terms we usually associate with Deadball Era ballplayers. As far as off the field activities were concerned, Wolter played it pretty straight and narrow. However, he did stick up for himself when it came to being paid his actual wages as a ballplayer. This resulted in […]
Jack Graney spent fourteen seasons in Major League Baseball, first with the Cleveland Naps and then with the Cleveland American League club. I don’t particularly care about any of those seasons. It’s not that Graney was a bad player, he wasn’t. Graney walked a ton and got on base at a great clip, and if […]
Bobby Wallace was just too good of a fielder. He’s a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame mainly because of his fielding ability. His hitting stats are rather average, but all who watched him considered him possibly the best defensive shortstop of the Deadball Era. He wasn’t always a light-hitting middle infielder. When […]