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(Entry No. 15)

Can You Identify 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. I’ll try to make each selection not too hard nor too easy. 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 Identity: Joe Tinker and Frank Chance

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:

The Mystery Player on the left was a shortstop for fifteen seasons in the major leagues. Although he hit only .262 for his career, he hit .350 against Christy Mathewson, who once said he was the toughest hitter he ever faced. He was known for his speed and defensive ability. He’s in the Hall of fame.

The Mystery Player on the right played 17 seasons in the major leagues and managed for 11 seasons, which included four pennants and two World Series championships. He compiled a 946-648 record (.593). He’s also in the Hall of Fame.

Who are the two Mystery Players?

This week’s bonus questions:

What year would this photo have to have been taken? Why?
Player on left had a long-running feud with another player. Who was the other player?
Player on left jumped to the Federal League in 1914. What Federal League team did he play for?
What was the nickname of the player on the right?
What three teams did the player on the right manage?

Good luck!

If you’d like to take a stab at identifying these players, please send me your answers 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 got the correct answers. The winner is the first person to correctly identify the Mystery Player(s), and also correctly answer all the bonus questions.

Last Week’s Winners:

Congratulations to:

Terry Farmer

He was the first to identify last week’s Mystery Player correctly and also answer all the bonus questions correctly.

The Mystery Player was:

Wes Ferrell

Wes Ferrell was once voted the Most Handsome Player in the Major Leagues

Answers to the Bonus Questions:

His brother was Rick Ferrell, He had 20 wins in his first four major league seasons, he holds the single-season major league record for home runs by a pitcher with 9, and for a career with 38.