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(Entry No. 9)

Can You Name This Week’s Mystery Players?

How well you do know your old-time players?

My goal with this feature is to shine our baseball spotlight on some very good players from days gone by who have been overshadowed by the likes of Ruth, Gehrig, Speaker, Hornsby, Grove, Greenberg, Robinson, Paige, Gibson, and Williams, among many other superstars the game has produced. Hopefully, we can give them a little exposure before they are totally lost over the passage of time.

As always on Baseball History Comes Alive, we can have some fun while enhancing our baseball history learning experience. Each entry will include a short description of the player and highlights from his career. Some of the entries might require you to do a little research on your own. I might even add a personal comment or two about him.

Player Identities: Wally Pipp, Babe Ruth, Roger Peckinpaugh, Bob Meusel, and Frank “Home Run” Baker.

So as to give everyone a chance to guess without the player’s identity being immediately revealed, send me your answer via e-mail instead of leaving your answer in the comments section. Send your answers to me at: Livac2@aol.com.

This week’s Mystery Players:

I found this neat photo on the home page of one of my Facebook friends, Chris Baker. Shouldn’t be too hard for you guys! It’s a group of Yankee players from the 1920s for you to test your knowledge. Name the five players. I’ll give you the Bambino, but you’ll have to work for the rest!

This week’s bonus questions:

What year was this photo taken?
Where was the photo taken?
One of the players had a famous “headache.” Who was it?
One of the players once managed the Yankee. Who was it and what year?
One of the players once led the American League in home runs with 9. Who was it and what year?

Good luck!

If you’d like to take a stab at identifying these players, please send me your answer via email. But feel free to add any thoughts or personal reflections you might have about him in the comments section below. Remember you don’t have to answer everything to submit an answer. Just give it your best shot!

Send your answers to me at: Livac2@aol.com

At the end of the week, I’ll post the names of everyone who go the correct answers, including the winner, the first one to get it right.

Last Week’s Winners:

Congratulations to Terry Farmer as the first to correctly identify last week’s Mystery Players as:

Back Row, L-R: Duffy Lewis, Eddie Collins, Roger Bresnahan, Clark Griffith, Bill Klem, Red Murray, George Sisler. Front Row, L-R: Honus Wagner, Frankie Frisch, Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker.

Answers to the Bonus Questions:

The photo is from the War Bonds game, played on August 26, 1943, at the Polo Grounds. The purpose was to sell war bonds to help the war effort. All are Hall-of-Famers except Duffy Lewis and Red Murray.

The following identified all the Mystery Players correctly and also correctly answered the bonus questions:

Terry Farmer, Gary Rosenthal, Bob Rambo, Michael Keedy, Kevin Barwin, William Carter

The following identified all or at least some of the Mystery Players correctly (but not all the bonus questions):

Al Citro, Ed Cassidy, Mike Bresina, Kenneth Simeone, Everett Shockley, Bill Cunniff.

(If I’ve accidentally overlooked anyone in any category, please let me know!)

Do you have a favorite player in mind you’d like to see featured as the Mystery Player?

If so, just drop me a line. I’ll even credit you as the one who suggested him. Feel free to add any personal thoughts about him or why you would like to see him featured. I’m looking for guys who are not obvious, but are not impossible to identify either. Livac2@aol.com.