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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Last 5 Next 10 Vol IV: Tying up Lewis ends.

I have less than a month now before I return to my substitute teaching schedule otherwise known as my day job.  I  still have 2 night jobs and plenty of things to do during my off hours but I have found  the time to get some reading in and am ready to report on my recent accomplishments in that regard.

Last 5 Books

I am using my HDOLL rating system.  Each books falls somewhere between hate and love with dislike okay and like coming between those extremes.

Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis

Why I chose this book: C.S. Lewis is by far my favorite author and The Chronicles of Narnia is by far my favorites of his books. Each year, I reread the entire series.   This year I am reading them in Narnian chronological which is why I am starting with The Magician's nephew.

Type: Book (read myself)

How Obtained: I have several copies of this book, this copy I obtained when our church decided to no longer have a church library and gave away all their books.

Rating: Loved. 

World of Wonders - Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Why I chose this book: On a trip to Barnes and Noble I saw that this book was their 2020 book of the year.  It seemed interesting, so I ordered it from our local library.  

Type: Book (sometimes read to myself, read some chapters to my wife.)

How Obtained: As stated I ordered this book  from my library. My wife went to pick up the book for me and realized that we gave a copy of that  book to our daughter for Christmas. She decided to let the library lend their copy  to the next person in line and I read my daughter's copy.

Rating: I loved this book.

Sooley - John Grisham

Why I chose this book: My wife borrowed this from the library and recommended it to me as she knows I'm a big fan of Grisham and basketball.  

Type: Book

How Obtained:  Borrowed from my local library.

Rating: Between okay and liked. I'd give a fuller review but I'm afraid to ruin the ending and Grisham has already beat me to the punch on that score.

The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis

Why I chose this book: as part of my annual reading of the chronicles of Narnia.

Type: Paperback Book

How Obtained: I own several copies

Rating:I love this book.

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

Why I chose this book: I chose this book as part of my annual reading of Chronicles of Narnia.  I decided to listen to it and listened to it mostly while getting steps.

Type: Audio Book (Cloud Library)

How Obtained: borrowed from my library using Cloud Library

Rating: Love this book

Note: To anyone who thinks I goofed on the Narnian Chronologcal order, I did not.  I listened to most of this book prior to reading Horse and His Boy,  as it takes place beffew minutes of wardrobeore the very end of Lion Witch and the Wardrobe.  When Aslan leaves near the end of the book, I read Horse and His Boy and  then listened to the final few minutes of Wardrobe

2021 Book Stats as of  7/19/21

Previous estimate as of  7/06/21 31.22  books by the end of the year, 

After I finished Defenders Vol I yesterday I also finished book # 16 for the year.  This is fairly common as I am often reading multiple books at the same time.  I'll include that book in my next post but will include it in my projections for the year.  

Current estimate as of 7/19/21 After reading 20 books in 200 days I'm on pace to o read 36.5 books  by the end of the year. 

 

10 Books I'm  Reading or Planning to Read Soon

God's Forgetful Pilgrims - Micahel Griffiths 

A Gospel Worthy of Your Life - Bill Mills

Laura Ingalls Wilder , A Storybook Life - Janet & Geoff Benge

Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder

News of The World - Paulette Jiles

Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

Essential Defenders Vol II

The Answer is ... Reflections on My Life- Alex Trebek

The Big 50 Chicago Bears - Adam L Jahns

More Than a Song: Randy Stonehill

I just reviewed Randy Stonehill's 2020 album Lost Art of Listening at Random Acts of Roller. Two songs from the album are performed by Sir Stonehill and his 2017 appearance on More Than A Song.

Last 5 Next 10 Vol III

 Summer is the time traditionally where I do a lot of reading. So far this Summer, I have read more than the anemic pace I set for myself at the start of the year.  I don't have that much to show for it as I am currently reading several books at a time but hopefully will be finishing a mess of those soon.  Here's what I've been up to recently.

Last 5 Books

I am using my HDOLL rating system.  Each books falls somewhere between hate and love with dislike okay and like coming between those extremes.

How To Hold Animals - Toshimitsu Matsuhashi

Why I chose this book: Our library has a section near the check out stations that I liken to the impulse buy aisle next to the check out aisles at a retail store.  I wondered why anyone would write, read or publish this book.  But my curiosity got the better of me.

Type: Book (read myself)

How Obtained: Borrowed from local library

Rating: Between okay and liked. 

In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Why I chose this book: As a substitute teacher I often end up reading parts of books to my classes to never encounter them again.  Being a big Jackie Robinson fan I decided to check this book out.

Type: Audio Book through my phone

How Obtained: I borrowed this book  from my library using the Hoopla app.  

Rating: Between Liked and Loved,

The Brave and the Bold Team-Up Archives Vol I

Why I chose this book: A few weeks ago I took my niece to our local library as she was visiting us for s few days.  I grabbed a couple of comic books off the graphic novels shelf to peruse while she read her books.  

Type: Hard Cover Book

How Obtained:  Borrowed from my local libray.

Rating: Solid like.

Black Widow Vol 1: The Ties That Bind- Kelly Thompson

Why I chose this book: I saw this book on the shelves at my local library and picked it up as the Black Widow movie was opening later in the summer and I thought it might be a good read in preparation for the movie

Type: Paperback Book

How Obtained: Borrowed from local library

Rating:Solid Like

Essential Defenders Vol I

Why I chose this book: In May I visited my friend Patrick.  He has an entire room in his house  dedicated to his comic book collection.  He had  a number  of volumes of The Defenders  which was a group of mostly loner super heroes that served as the last line of defense for humanity.  He was kind enough to lend me the first two volumes.

Type: Paperback Book

How Obtained: Borrowed from friend

Rating: Closer to Like than Okay.

2021 Book Stats as of  7/6/21

Previous estimate as of  5/25/21 25.43 books by the end of the year, 

After I finished Defenders Vol I yesterday I also finished book # 16 for the year.  This is fairly common as I am often reading multiple books at the same time.  I'll include that book in my next post but will include it in my projections for the year.  After reading 16 books in 187 days I'm on pace to o read 31.22 books  by years end. 

 

10 Books I'm  Reading or Planning to Read Soon

Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Unaborted Socrates - Peter Kreeft

News of The World - Paulette Jiles

World of Wonders- Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Schulz and Peanuts - David Michaelis

Essential Defenders Vol II

150 Glimpses of The Beatles - Craig BrownTT

The Answer is ... Reflections on My Life- Alex Trebek

The Big 50 Chicago Bears - Adam L Jahns

Sooley - John Grisham