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zubinsum
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Anyone know what is the significance of this list of players?

Cap Anson
Bobby Wallace
Jimmy Dykes
Early Winn
Tommy John
Omar Vizquel

 

1/28/2012 1:02 PM
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Trentonjoe
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Players who played in their teens and 40's?
1/28/2012 2:02 PM
contrarian23
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Several didn't play as teenagers.  The age/longevity thing seems like the logical place to look.  I looked for some sort of quality/age combination, but couldn't find anything obvious.  Consider me stumped.
1/28/2012 5:12 PM
zubinsum
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Look at the years that they played, not the number of seasons..
1/28/2012 5:23 PM
contrarian23
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Shortest possible chain from the beginning of MLB to the present day?  (With links being defined as "played in the same season")
1/28/2012 5:31 PM
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That sounds like a pretty good guess.
1/28/2012 6:28 PM
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Posted by contrarian23 on 1/28/2012 5:31:00 PM (view original):
Shortest possible chain from the beginning of MLB to the present day?  (With links being defined as "played in the same season")

Yep.  As far as I can tell, this is the only way to get there.  Being only 6 player's away from Baseball's Year-one isn't as cool as being only two generations away from the 10th US President, but it is pretty cool.

1/28/2012 8:49 PM
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