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One of the most aggressive ball players of his time. "Buck" Herzog was a far better than average infielder. He played third, short, or second. He spent his entire major league career in the National League, playing with the New York Giants, Boston Braves, Cincinnati Reds, and Chicago Cubs from 1908 through 1920. He was not a great hitter but his speed enabled him to get on base often - he stole a total of 320 bases. He was the shining light of the World Series for the New York Giants in 1912, batting .400 in 8 games, getting 12 hits.
Always a long-ball threat, Jim has been in organized baseball since 1950. Four times in the minors, Jim topped the .300 mark. His best performance was at Fresno in 1951 when he batted .333.
Jake Solters started his baseball career, at the age of 19, with the Fairmont Club, of the Middle Atlantic League in 1927. He played with Fairmont from 1927 to 1929, moving to Baltimore in 1930, Shreveport in 1931, Albany and Binghamton in 1932, back to Baltimore in 1933, and then joined the Boston Red Sox in 1934. He was traded to the St. Louis Browns in the middle of the 1935 season. He played with St. Louis in 1936 and was traded to the Cleveland Indians in 1935, along with Ivy Andrews and Lynn Lary, for Oral Hildebrand, Bill Knickerbocker, and Joe Vosmik. During his five years of major-league baseball, he played 623 games for a batting aver- age of .300.
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