History can reveal things to you if you spend a bit of time studying it. For instance, I didn’t realize until I started this little quest through the most valuable players (by WAR) in Cleveland baseball history that there is a long thread of incredibly good third base play throughout their history.
After Al Rosen and Ken Keltner in our last two editions, we find ourselves in the world of deadball baseball.
It was a weird time, where Home Run Baker led the league in dingers with like nine. In all this, with Nap Lajoie getting a team named after him, Cy Young emerging as a great “fireballer”, and so much more, rose a young, talented hitter named Bill Bradley.