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[Cedrique]

How about Stan Musial?

 

[Cedrique]

Bob Gibson?

 

[msgkings322]

How about Stan Musial?

Nice, one left. Not Gibson

 

[Cedrique]

Ernie Banks or Billy Williams?

 

[msgkings322]

Ernie Banks or Billy Williams?

Nope

 

[msgkings322]

Final name is Mel Ott

 

[msgkings322]

No one will get this without looking it up.

The last living position player to have played in the majors in the 1940s just died. He was also the youngest player to hit a home run in the majors. Who is it?

 

[Cedrique]

No one will get this without looking it up.

The last living position player to have played in the majors in the 1940s just died. He was also the youngest player to hit a home run in the majors. Who is it?

Minnie Minoso

 

[msgkings322]

Minnie Minoso

No but fun guess. He’s been dead for a bit

 

[Cedrique]

Bob Uecker?

 

[msgkings322]

Bob Uecker?

Serves me right for asking a question no one can get LOl

Tommy Brown, Brooklyn Dodgers

 

[DrewScott]

Joe Schlibotnick?

 

[Cedrique]

Joe Schlibotnick?

Roger Kaputnick?

 

[YourFriendGannon]

Serves me right for asking a question no one can get LOl

Tommy Brown, Brooklyn Dodgers

Now there is only one player, a pitcher, from the 1940s left....from what I read anyway. He's less obscure but I didn't know him either.

Tommy Brown was the last living pre-integration player btw.

 

[TheGoodMan19]

Joe Schlibotnick?

Last seen managing the Waffletown Syrups in the Green Grass League. Fired for calling a squeeze play. With no one on base.

 

[calsnowskier]

Last seen managing the Waffletown Syrups in the Green Grass League. Fired for calling a squeeze play. With no one on base.

Well, that’s what a 0.004 BA will get you.

 

[catman]

Last seen managing the Waffletown Syrups in the Green Grass League. Fired for calling a squeeze play. With no one on base.

Bobby Shantz

 

[DrewScott]

Last seen managing the Waffletown Syrups in the Green Grass League. Fired for calling a squeeze play. With no one on base.

I think a few of you guys know this already, but just in case, Joe Schlabotnick was Charlie Brown's favorite baseball player. It came up every once in a while in the Peanuts comics.

 

[Cedrique]

I think a few of you guys know this already, but just in case, Joe Schlabotnick was Charlie Brown's favorite baseball player. It came up every once in a while in the Peanuts comics.

yeah it sounded familiar so I googled it. I got it mixed up with Roger Kaputnik, a name used a lot in Mad Magazine.

 

[TheGoodMan19]

I think a few of you guys know this already, but just in case, Joe Schlabotnick was Charlie Brown's favorite baseball player. It came up every once in a while in the Peanuts comics.

One of the great Sunday strips. Lucy gets a Shlabotnik card (1963, I think). Charlie Brown doesn't have a Shlabotnik and offers Miss Van Pelt a ton of cards, worth a small fortune today for one common. Lucy turns him down ("he's kind of cute") but throws him in the trash.