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According to the official totals (from the
daily pages kept at the Hall of Fame), Gee Walker’s first game in 1931
was April 14. He played pretty frequently but not every day through May 29. He
then has a gap from that date until August 17, presumably because he was
returned to the minors although I suppose he may have been injured. He then
played quite regularly through September 26. Their last game of the season was
September 27.
Hub
This means that were probably quite a few
games in which they both appeared. I don’t have time to sort through
this, but if anyone is interested, I can send the pdf images for these two men
for that season. There are two for Gee and three for Hub.
Dave Smith
From:
SABR_Records@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SABR_Records@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rod Nelson
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 12:29
PM
To: SABR_Records@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [SABR_Records] Gee
Walker or Hub Walker?
Interesting
dilemma. Other than contemporary newspaper accounts, it's
possible that this feature article would have touched on whether the
two played together, since they were brothers.
Rod Nelson
From BaseballIndex.
Title: That Sensational Rookie - Gerald Walker
Author(s): Bloodgood, Clifford;
Copyright Date: 1932 Issue Date: September
Source:Baseball Magazine
Volume:49 Issue Number:4
Pages: 456(2) Photos: bw:(1)
Bibliography: Foot/Source Notes:
Statistics: n;
Named People: Walker, Gerald
Topics:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Alan <schlomostreet@
> I've been researching the 1931 Sporting News boxes (thanks to "Paper
of
> Record") and I'm having difficulty distinguishing between Hub Walker
> and Gee
>
> Both were Tiger OF in 1931, but the boxes don't distinguish, and both
> players debuted (so far as I can tell from Baseball-Reference.
> mid-April. Retrosheet.com transactions for '31 don't mention either
>
>
> In other same-name cases, SN usually added an appropriate first
> initial, but not with the '31 Walkers, and that makes me think that
> only one of the Walkers was on the Tiger roster at a time during '31.
>
> Does anyone perchance know anything about this?
>
> Thanks much for any advice!
>
> Alan
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