lostnames.net

Featuring the stars who shone the brightest when baseball was young

Now featuring : 'Big' Ed Delahanty
ABOUT
Some of the greatest names you never knew
Baseball is married to its history. And while the different eras have come to define the game more and more, the players who came before the modern era offered us a peek into the rich traditions of baseball, from the very beginning. This website and podcast celebrates those, the ones who aren't household names - yet, who just the same, deserve recognition as the best, of the best.
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'Big' Ed Delahanty 1888 - 1903
Napoleon Lajoie Career Highlights
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Began his major league career in 1888
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Played 16 years of major league baseball
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Hit .400 or better three years
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Lifetime .346 batting average
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Selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame 1945
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Played one season in the short lived Players League
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Napoleon Lajoie
Career Highlights
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Began his major league career in 1896
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Lifetime batting average .337
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Won 1910 batting championship beating Ty Cobb
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Was barred from playing in Philadelphia one year
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Rated number 29 in 100 best ballplayers of the first 100 years by Sporting News
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Selected to the second class of theBaseball Hall of Fame 1937

Mordecai 'Three Fingers' Brown
Career Highlights
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Began his major league career in 1903
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Won 237 games in the major leagues
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Threw 55 shutouts
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Lifetime E.R.A. of 2.06
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Beat Christy Mathewson in the 1908 National League's first playoff game to determine the pennant
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Selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame 1949







