Thursday, August 5, 2021

50 left from Twenties

The Online Version of the Baseball Almanac has a very nice feature that shows you the current 500 oldest living people who played major league baseball. Since November 30, 2018 the title of oldest living player has gone to a former Chicago White Sox. Tom Jordan held the distinction until his death on 8/26/19, 10 days before his 100th birthday. Val Helm took over the title upon Jordan's death and held hit 17 days past his 99th birthday on Nember 4th 1919. Eddie Robinson who I featured in my A to Z challenge on White Sox Homerun hitters has held the record since Helm's death. Robinson turned 100 on 12/15/2020 and hopes to hold the record for a while. The nperson in 2nd who turned 100 earlier this year has a fitting name for the distinction if he outlive Robinson, George Elder.
There are currently 50 former players alive who were born in the 1920's. As the time passes I hope to give updates on the 50 players on the chart below with further information on the last 50 MLB players who were alive in the 1920's.

Rank

Player

Games Played/Teams With

DOB

Age
Oldest Eddie Robinson 1315 games – 7 Teams:( Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles.) 12/15/1920 100
2nd Oldest George Elder 41 games St. Louis Browns 3/10/1921 100
3rd Oldest Eddie Basinski 203 Games 2 Teams ( Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates) 11/4/1922 98
4th Oldest Tim Thompson 187 Games 3 Teams (Brooklyn Dodgers, Kansas City Athletics, and Detroit Tigers) 03/01/1924 97
5th Oldest Art Schallock 58 Games (New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles) 4/25/1924 97
6th Oldest Bill Greason 3 games St. Louis Cardinals 9/3/1924 96
7th Oldest Larry Miggins 43 games St. Louis Cardinals 8/20/1925 95
8th Oldest Paul Hindrichs 4 games Boston Red Sox 8/31/1925 95
9th Oldest Bobby Shantz 578 games – 6 teams ( Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Colt 45’s, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and Philadelphia Phillies) 9/26/1925 95
10th Oldest Chris Haughey 1 game Brooklyn Dodgers 10/3/1925 95
11th Oldest Frank Saucier 18 games: St. Louis Browns 5/28/1926 95
12th Oldest Bobby Morgan 671 games: 4 teams (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, and Chicago Cubs ) 6/29/1926 95
13th Oldest Johnny Groth 1,248 games: 5 teams ( Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, and Kansas City Athletics ) 7/23/1926 95
14th Oldest Ed Mickelson 18 games: 3 teams (St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, and Chicago Cubs ) 9/9/1926 94
15th Oldest Carl Erskine 360 games: Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers 12/13/1926 94
16th Oldest Jim Willis 27 games: Chicago Cubs 3/20/1927 94
17th Oldest
Charlie Maxwell 1133 games 4 (Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox) 4/8/1927 94
18th Oldest Billy Gardner 1,034 games: 6 Teams (New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, and Boston Red Sox) 7/19/1927 94
19th Oldest Cloyd Boyer 113 games: 2 teams ( St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Athletics ) 9/1/1927 93
20th Oldest Dave Hillman 197 games: 4 teams ( Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, and New York Mets ) 9/14/1927 93
21st Oldest Bill Harington 58 games: Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics 10/3/1927 93
22nd Oldest Bob Kelly 123 games: 3 teams (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians ) 10/4/1927 93
23rd Oldest Tommy Brown 494 games: 3 teams (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago Cubs ) 12/6/1927 93
24th Oldest Bob Oldis 135 games: 3 teams (Washington Senators, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Philadelphia Phillies) 1/5/1928 93
25th Oldest Felipe Montemayor 64 games: Pittsburgh Pirates 2/7/1928 93
26th Oldest Roy Face 853 games:3 teams ( Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, and Montreal Expos)
2/20/1928 93
27th Oldest Billy Hunter 630 games: 5 teams (St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, and Cleveland Indians) 6/4/1928 93
28th Oldest John Glenn
32 games: St. Louis Cardinals
29 6/101928 93
29th Oldest Vito Valentinetti
108 games: 5 teams ( Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, and Washington Senators)
9/16/1928 92
30th Oldest Fred Marolewski 1 game: St. Louis Cardinals 10/6/1928 92
31st Oldest Gail Henley 14 games: Pittsburgh Pirates
10/15/1928 92
32nd Oldest Mickey Micelotta 17 games Philadelphia Phillies 10/20/1928 92
33rd Oldest Bob Ross 20 games 2 teams Washington Senators and Philadelphia Phillies 11/2/1928 92
34th Oldest Bill Wilson 224 games 2 teams (Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics) 11/6/1928 92
35th Oldest Moe Savransky 16 Games Cincinatti Reds 1/13/1929 92
36th Oldest Gale Wade 19 games: Chicago Cubs
37 1/20/1929 92
37th Oldest Bobby Kline 77 games Washington Senators 1/27/1929 92
38th Oldest Al Worthington 602 games 5 teams (New York & San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and Minnesota Twins). 2/5/1929 92
39th Oldest Mel Held 4 games Baltimore Orioles 4/12/1929 92
40th Oldest Ed Winceniak 32 games Chicago Cubs 4/16/1929 92
41st Oldest Curt Simmons 609 games: 4 teams (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and California Angels) 5/19/1929 92
42nd Oldest Hank Foiles 608 games 7 teams (Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Angels) 6/10/1929 92
43rd Oldest Frank Thomas 1756 games 7 teams (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros) 6/11/1929 92
44th Oldest Don Ferrarese 184 games 5 teams ( Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals) 6/19/1929 92
45th Oldest Hector Lopez 1450 games 2 teams (Kansas City Athletics and New York Yankees) 7/8/1929 92
46th Oldest Jerry Snyder 266 games Washington Senators 7/21/1929 92
47th Oldest Joe Pignatano 307 games 4 teams (Brooklyn & L.A. Dodgers, Kansas City Atletics, San Francisco Giants and New York Mets) 8/4/1929 92
48th Oldest Ike Delock 329 games 2 teams (Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles) 11/11/1929 91
49th Oldest Carl Linhart 3 games Detroit Tigers 12/14/1929 91
50th Oldest Ray Herbert 408 games 4 teams (Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics, Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Phillies) 12/15/1929 91

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Sports Quotes

Rich, on the other hand sough retaliation in the batter's box. If a pitcher threw him a brushback or an infielder spiked him, it came at the expense of a hard line drive right back at him, or a game-winning home run. But never did Rich lower himself by making negative gestures to the fans or berating an umpire; he simply let his bat do his talking for him. In the process, Allen moved the moral conventions of the game past those that once condoned racism. For that he should have been admired like Jackie Robinson instead of dismissed as a malcontent. -William C Kashatus in Dick Allen: The Life and Times of a Baseball Immortal.