Walt WHITEY WHITMAN
Banned from appearing in mist of the respectable ballparks of his day, Charles BABE BAUDELAIRE was nevertheless voted. Most Valuable Madman for three years in a row, possessing an almost unhittable spleen-ball. He ended a great career with the Left Bank Heads by reclining in the dugout & dissipating away into nothingness.
Art WHIZZ KID RIMBAUD was the game's original bonus-baby, breaking in with the old St. Louis Seers at the age of 14. His chief claim to fame was playing an entire Season in Hell. He flamed out early, however, and finished up in relative obscurity with the Harar Traders in the Ethiopian Hot Stove League.
Henry SIMPLE-SIMON THOREAU: Little is known about the old-time catcher depicted here, except that he played for the Walden Ponderers, was given to ruminative sitting behind the the plate, and had a phenomenal Thoreau-ing arm.
Herman SKIPPER MELVILLE was a Budd-ing star for many campaigns who played for the New Bedford Figureheads and the Nantucket Pissbuckets. A spray-hitter, he could really whale the ball at times, on which account his bat was christened "MOBY STICK".
Walt WHITEY WHITMAN was a vagabond outfielder (and a switch-hitter as well) who sang, celebrated and assumed himself when lilacs last in the ballpark bloomed. His magnum opus: LEAVES OF ASTROTURF.
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