ATG Player Addition #2 Poll

I decided to focus on special or unique seasons and ended up voting for Ruth, Cy Williams, Caminiti, Brady Anderson and Tommy Davis.
Caminiti, Anderson, and Davis all deserve to be represented by their best card. Brady doesn't even have a card.
Cy Williams had an excellent career. He deserves a good card.
The Babe already has three good cards, but 1924 is considered by many sabermetricians as the greatest season ever, by anyone, so I think it should be in the set.

I would have liked more votes to bestow on Keeler, Seymour, Lazzeri, Averill, Fielder, Abreu, Greinke, Lynn, Ellsworth and several others, but the top 20 nominees make the grade, so maybe others will vote them in.

Wayne Terwilliger: a symbolic pick. I succumbed to Maxie Minoso's argument (Maxie is Wayne's page sponsor on Baseball Reference) that a person like long-serving baseball man Terwilliger, even if he'll never make 200 mil rosters, deserves a card. Would take his place among an all too short PHA-post roster.

Thanks for the comment.
I remember opening baseball card packs in the early Fifties and every other card seemed to be Cass Michaels, Floyd Baker or Wayne Terwilliger. Bummer! Where's Bob Lemon, Larry Doby, or Al Rosen? At school it was, "I'll trade you 15 Eddie Lakes for your Mike Garcia." "No way!" was always the reply.
Then several years later I noticed on the back of the Terwilliger card and some of the teams he had played for: Senators, Cubs, A's. Man they were door mats. Then I noticed "Brooklyn 1951". Yes, Wayne was sitting on the bench watching Bobby Thomson gain eternal glory while crushing Twig's hopes of a post season. "Wow", I thought, "what a tough luck guy. Baseball can be cruel."
Fast forward to 1988. I'm watching the Twins play the Tribe at the stadium and there coaching third base for Minnesota is Wayne Terwilliger. Baseball wasn't too kind to Twig and there he is coaching 28 years after he retired as a player. That's when he joined my favorite players list, which isn't all that long. I've followed his baseball adventures since that day until he retired from the game twenty-two years later at the age of 85.
Look, I love baseball and I'm sure you all do too. But one thing is certain in my mind. None of us will ever love the sport of baseball as much as Wayne Terwilliger.

Maxie

some good arguements here. I have jotted down Brady Anderson because he does not have a card in the set. Carter and Caminitti make sense but looking at their numbers they seem like cards that will do most of their damage vs lefties. I'd kind of like to see Cuyler's best card in there. Still deciding so please continue to lobby for players

double post

Fred Lynn 1975 MVP and Rokkie of Year. Don't think it's happened any other time.

Kind of curious that Caminiti and Anderson lead the vote with all the hue and cry against those evil steroid cards

Fred Lynn 1975 MVP and Rokkie of Year. Don't think it's happened any other time.

Kind of curious that Caminiti and Anderson lead the vote with all the hue and cry against those evil steroid cards

why all the duplicate card players? Do people merely want to draft cheaper cards and dump for the expensive ones? Would be nice to actually restrict to unique players

What's the best card (after 1900) here? I'm guessing it's probably Averill (would be nice to have his best card in there also). thinking out loud here as my only vote so far is still Tommy Davis

o'neill, cuyler, browning, keeler and joyce.

I wanted to vote for about 15 guys. My bottom line is guys that have good cards that will get used, but sentimental considerations were also a factor. I don't care about steroid use, and I don't care much about limiting either pre 1900 players or post 2000 players.

Here is who I voted for.

Tommy Davis. The guy could hit and he was a key 60's Dodger. He led the NL in batting two years in a row. I've wanted his best card for a long time.

Fred Lynn, 1975. For some reason SOM doesn't even have this card in the mystery games. Great season. I really just want to see the card - probably similar to his '79 card - but, still...

Cy Williams. Great hitter, led the league 4x in home runs, almost HOF career stats and the only card we have of him is one of his worst seasons, included in ATG only because the earliest versions of ATG had whole teams and he happened to play on the Phillies' team that had Pete's best season.

Lyman Bostock. Mostly sentimental. I played a lot of face to face SOM in the mid 70's and I liked his card. Probably be in the 4M range and may not get a whole lot of usage. Good franchise and 60M player.

Wee Willie Keeler. When we played street baseball as I kid, I would imagine I was him, and always tried to "hit 'em where they ain't." Would have preferred his best season, but .385 ain't too shabby.

I've always wanted to see what that Tommy Davis card would look like as well. All time single season RBI record for Dodgers , with 153 on "only" 27 HR's, my guess is this card would have to be big in the plus clutch to get that many ribbies