Rube Waddell
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George Edward "Rube" Waddell was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. A left-hander, he played for 13 years, with the Louisville Colonels, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Chicago Orphans in the Natio
Waddell in 1901
Waddell with the Philadelphia A's in 1905, taken at Hilltop Park in New York City
Baseball card of Waddell derived from the 1905 photo
Waddell's plaque at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Smoky Joe Wood
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Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was an American professional baseball player for 14 years. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1908 to 1915, where he was primarily a pitcher, and for the Cleveland
Rube Waddell
…ballparks. In 1981, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time. Under what they called "the Smoky Joe Wood Syndrome", they argued in favor of including players of truly exceptional talent whose career was curtailed by injury (or, in Waddell's case, substance…
Wood with the Boston Red Sox in 1915
Baseball card