1939 Play Ball team checklist

Here's the 1939 Play Ball set divided up into team checklists. This is not a great set to collect if you are a fan of Chicago baseball, The Cubs have no cards in the set and the Sox only have two. Cleveland and St. Louis are not well represented either. Tons of New York and Boston players though. Most of the lower series cards have a variation, a list of which can be found here. None of the variations are especially scarce. Decent examples of these cards can be found fairly cheaply for team set or type set collectors.

Boston Red Sox
4 Elden Auker
7 Bobby Doerr
14 Jim Tabor
16 Johnny Peacock
17 Emerson Dickman
20 Joe Heving
27 Fritz Ostermueller
29 Jack Wilson
40 Jim Bagby
62 Tom Carey
92 Ted Williams
101 Doc Cramer
103 Moe Berg
107 Joe Vosmik
116 Gene Desautels*

Chicago White Sox
91 Jack Knott
105 Eric McNair

Cleveland Indians
5 Luke Sewell
78 Moose Solters
143 Earl Averill*
152 Roy Weatherly*

Detroit Tigers
50 Charlie Gehringer
56 Hank Greenberg
60 Schoolboy Rowe
80 Pete Fox
104 Tommy Bridges
115 Red Kress
136 Beau Bell*
147 Slick Coffman*
150 Jim Walkup*
153 Dizzy Trout*
158 Bud Thomas*

New York Yankees
1 Jake Powell
3 Red Ruffing
25 George Selkirk
26 Joe DiMaggio
30 Bill Dickey
42 Art Jorgens
48 Lefty Gomez
52 Tommy Henrich
71 Monte Pearson
81 Babe Dahlgren
88 Charlie Keller

Philadelphia Athletics
8 Cotton Pippen
64 Wally Moses
84 Skeeter Newsome
97 Bob Johnson
108 Frankie Hayes
117 Wayne Ambler*
118 Lynn Nelson*

St Louis Browns (Orioles)
43 Mel Almada
44 Don Heffner
109 Myril Hoag
122 George McQuinn*
148 Bill Trotter*

Washington Senators (Twins)
10 Jimmy DeShong
21 Dutch Leonard
31 Sam West
39 Rick Ferrell
47 Buddy Lewis
59 Ken Chase
93 Charlie Gelbert
100 Buddy Myer
114 Cecil Travis
137 Pete Appleton*
138 George Case*

Boston Bees (Braves)
49 Eddie Miller
57 Buddy Hassett
61 Tony Cuccinello
69 Elbie Fletcher
70 Fred Frankhouse
72 Debs Garms
85 Johnny Cooney
87 Milt Shoffner
120 Rabbit Warstler*
121 Bill Posedel*
149 Max West*
155 Jimmy Outlaw*

Brooklyn Dodgers
6 Leo Durocher
13 Luke Hamlin
68 Fred Singleton
74 Cookie Lavagetto
76 Goody Rosen
86 Dolph Camilli
95 Whit Wyatt
96 Babe Phelps
110 Freddie Fitzsimmons
111 Van Mungo
134 Tot Pressnell*
139 Vito Tamulis*
140 Ray Hayworth*
141 Pete Coscarart*
142 Ira Hutchinson*
151 Hugh Casey*
154 Johnny Hudson*
159 Red Evans*
160 Gene Moore*

Chicago Cubs
none

Cincinnatti Reds
2 Lee Grissom
15 Paul Derringer
22 Bucky Walters
36 Frank McCormick
38 Billy Myers
65 Harry Craft
67 Eddie Joost
75 Frenchy Bordagaray
77 Lew Riggs
99 Wally Berger
119 Willard Hershberger*
123 Ray Davis*
161 Lonny Frey*
162 Whitey Moore*

New York Giants
18 Harry Danning
23 Burgess Whitehead
24 Dick Coffman
32 Bob Seeds
34 Frank Demaree
35 Billy Jurges
51 Mel Ott
53 Carl Hubbell
54 Harry Gumbert
58 Lou Chiozza
66 Jimmy Ripple
73 Hal Schumacher
79 Jo-Jo Moore
124 Jumbo Brown*
125 Cliff Melton*
144 Zeke Bonura*

Philadelphia Phillies
12 Hersh Martin
28 Syl Johnson
33 Del Young
37 Spud Davis
45 Pinky May
46 Morrie Arnovich
63 Heinie Mueller
98 Pinky Whitney
127 Gibby Brack*
145 Hugh Mulcahy*

Pittsburgh Pirates
9 Jim Tobin
11 Johnny Rizzo
55 Arky Vaughan
82 Chuck Klein
83 Gus Suhr
89 Lloyd Waner
90 Bob Klinger
94 Heinie Manush
102 Pep Young
112 Paul Waner
128 Joe Bowman*
129 Bill Swift*
130 Bill Brubaker*
156 Ray Berres*

St. Louis Cardinals
19 Paul Dean
41 Lon Warneke
131 Mort Cooper*
132 Jimmy Brown*
133 Lynn Myers*
135 Mickey Owen*
146 Tom Sunkel*
157 Don Padgett*

Miscellaneous
106 Dolly Stark
113 Al Schacht
126 Card Never Issued

* High series