Top 20 Players of the 1900s

Happy St Patrick's day! Current, part of my Lent is to not acquire any new baseball cards. But baseball in general is still my hobby. I decided to challenge myself with new research. What is the research? I asked my self if I really know who were the best baseball players by decade. The answer is really a big no. Especially when going to the 50's and earlier. Plus I can challenge what I think modern baseball is stacked. So I'm going to try to post every decade and the 20 best players from that decade. A "d" before the stat is a stat for that decade. A "c" before the stat is a stat for the career. Well, here is my new Project! I'm going to spec out the "Power Ranking" of the top MLB Stars of Every Decade Since the 1900s.

So lets start with the 1900s (1900-1909) - Top 20 Players of the 1900s (in no particular order)

Po Name            dBA  dOBP    dH  dHR  dRBI    dR   cBA   cWAR    cH  cHR    cR  cRBI  HoF  dTeams 
SS Honus Wagner   .352  .417  1847   51  956   1014  .328  130.8  3420  101  1739  1732  HoF  PIT    
2B Nap Lajoie     .346  .388  1661   48  793    806  .338  107.4  3243   82  1504  1599  HoF  PHA/CLE
OF Sam Crawford   .307  .355  1677   57  808    813  .309   75.2  2961   97  1391  1523  HoF  CIN/DET
OF Fred Clarke    .301  .380  1396   26  510    885  .312   67.9  2678   67  1622  1015  HoF  LOU/PIT
1B Frank Chance   .300  .397  1063   17  501    547  .296   45.6  1274   20   798   596  HoF  CHC    
1B Harry Davis    .286  .339  1332   67  668    721  .277   38.6  1841   75  1001   951  ---  PHA    
OF Ty Cobb        .338  .380   765   20  390    364  .366  151.1  4189  117  2243  1944  HoF  DET    
OF Elmer Flick    .311  .383  1449   38  577    768  .313   53.2  1752   48   950   756  HoF  PHI/CLE

Po Name               dERA  dWHIP    dSO  dIP     cWAR   cERA   cSO  cWHIP  HoF   dTeams      
P  Christy Mathewson  1.98  1.035   1799  2996.2  104.0  2.13  2507  1.058  HoF   NYG         
P  Cy Young           2.12  1.000   1565  3344.0  168.0  2.63  2803  1.130  HoF   STL/BOS/CLE 
P  Rube Waddell       2.11  1.099   2251  2835.1   58.3  2.16  2316  1.102  HoF   PIT         
P  Eddie Plank        2.42  1.110   1342  2666.0   91.5  2.35  2246  1.119  HoF   PHA         
P  Addie Joss         1.87  0.963    871  2219.2   44.2  1.89   920  0.968  HoF   CLE         
P  Mordecai Brown     1.63  0.984    799  1827.2   58.3  2.06  1375  1.066  HoF   CHC         
P  Orval Overall      2.13  1.152    813  1322.2   22.8  2.26   935  1.161  ---   CHC         
P  Noodles Hahn       2.52  1.133    772  1720.1   44.8  2.55   917  1.132  ---   CIN         
P  Joe McGinnity      2.65  1.183    994  3075.0   57.6  2.66  1068  1.188  HoF   BRO/BLA/NYG  
P  Jack Chesbro       2.61  1.133   1237  2747.2   42.1  2.68  1265  1.152  HoF   PIT/NYY     
P  Doc White          2.20  1.089   1105  2315.0   46.5  2.39  1384  1.121  ---   PHI/CHW     
P  Vic Willis         2.57  1.195   1304  3130.1   63.7  2.63  1651  1.209  HoF   BSN/PIT     

Missing anything? Mistakes?

Status of Baseball Card Collection

I currently have more than 20,000 of them in my library of cards. You can see my collection here - http://mrgibson.com/baseball5.php

Team collecting, for the Cubs (1,233 items for about 9.9% of the cataloged collection), the White Sox (641 items), the Cardinals (638 items), and the Red Sox (502 items).

Total number of items in database is 12,508 items cataloged so far. I'm still working on growing my 60' portion of the collection.

=== 1960 Fleer
1 a01235 Mordecai Brown Photo card Fleer Chi Cubs 1960 Standard 009 Box 003  
=== 1960 Topps
2 c00090 Art Ceccarelli Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1960 Standard 156 Box 007  
3 c00091 Lou Johnson Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1960 Standard 476 Box 007  
4 c00616 Al Schroll Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1960 Standard 357 Box 009  
5 e00049 Walt Moryn Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1960 Standard 074 Box x  o
6 f00771 Sammy Taylor Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1960 Standard 162   c
7         Ernie Banks working on aquiring....
=== 1961 Topps
1 b01543 Frank Thomas Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1961 Standard 382 Box 007  
2 b01544 Glen Hobbie Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1961 Standard 264 Box 007  
3 b01545 Jim Brewer Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1961 Standard 317 Box 007  
4 b01546 Sammy Taylor Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1961 Standard 253 Box 007  
5 e00045 Moe Thacker Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1961 Standard 012 Box x  o
6 e00046 Danny Murphy Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1961 Standard 214 Box x rookie card c
7 f00767 Ron Santo Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1961 Standard 035  Rookie Card 3
8 f00768 Billy Williams Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1961 Standard 141  Rookie Card o
=== 1962
1 c01594 George Altman Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1962 Standard 240 Box 011  
2 c01595 Barney Schultz Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1962 Standard 089 Box 011  
3 e00047 Cuno Barragon Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1962 Standard 066 Box x  c
4 f00774 Sammy Taylor Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1962 Standard    c
5 f00775 Lou Brock Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1962 Standard   HoF Rookie Card o
6 f00776 Bob Will Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1962 Standard
=== 1963
1 c01477 Dick Ellsworth Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1963 Standard 399 Box 010  
2 d01844 Andre Rodgers Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1963 Standard 193 Frame 24  s
3 d01845 Ron Santo Photo card Fleer Chi Cubs 1963 Standard 032 Frame 24  3
4 d01847 Don Landrum Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1963 Standard 113 Frame 24  o
5 e00048 Bob Buhl Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1963 Standard 175 Box x  p
6 f00769 Ernie Banks Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1963 Standard 380   1
7 f00770 Lou Brock Photo card Topps Chi Cubs 1963 Standard 472   o

History of Consoles Baseball Games.

Part 1 - History of Console Baseball Games

This will look at the first 8 games on 2nd Generation game consoles - primitive baseball games produced between 1978-1988.  Most of these games I have in my collections (minus the Intellivision and Coleco)

In the begging there were two home console baseball games released in 1978.

Atari Home Run gave you a choice of one or three players on the field at a time
that could not move independently. The play was not great and players could not
throw to each other.

Odyssey2 had the home run between the two games.  Baseball! had better game play and the
effort to actually place 9 players on the field.  Oddly, the the out fields moved together,
but the other players were independent. At the moment, Odyssey would have the best, but would never have another baseball game for the system.


"Home Run" on Atari 2600 - 1978


"Baseball!" on Odyssey² - 1978

Next Mattel released Major League Baseball in 1980 for Intellivision.  It just blew away
Magnavox Odyssey2's Baseball! and not even in the same planetary system as
Atari's Home Run.  The game had an actual baseball diamond.  Out fielders
moved independently.


"Major League Baseball" - Intellivision - 1980

Then Mattel came back in 1982 and created a baseball game that truly resembled baseball
with Super Challenge Baseball for the Atari 2600. This was a huge improvement for the Atari system.


"Super Challenge Baseball" for the Atari 2600 - 1982

Not to be out done, Atari released Realsports Baseball 1983.
Much, much better than their first attempt, but you might want to play with the sound off.

Still, Mattel's version the year before is better


"Realsports Baseball" on Atari 2600 - 1983



Mattel wanted to take baseball games to the next level from just the
traditional overhead vew.

"World Series Major League Baseball" Intellivision - 1983

Then came the next step, a baseball game with multi-view with Colecovision's baseball games

"Super Action Baseball" Colecovision - 1983

With Atari's last attempt with the 2600, they got the sound to be tolerable.  Sounds much
like Intellivision's.  Players no longer have multi-color clothes, but the animation is a bit
better.


"Super Baseball" on Atari 2600 - 1988