Oops. How could I forget to add this to this list?! I got this in January 2018. I can hardly begin to tell his story. The relatively new movie, "The Catcher was a Spy" covers a lot of it. He spied. He won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was brilliant. A lawyer. And he kinda went nuts for the end of his life.
Read the book. Really.

So I don't even LIKE the Exhibits cards very much. No logos, no real information at all, really. No stats on the back. No nothing on the back. But I keep finding players that I want in that set. THIS guy grabbed me right away and this is his only accessible Cubs card.
First, his parents were from Lithuania. My mother was from Lithuania. Second, he is the probably inspiration for "The Natural." (But see Billy Jurges) Shot and almost killed by a woman in one of the first cases of celebrity stalking. He barely survived, but went to be a star with the Phillies. LOVE it.

Received 10/29/20

Discovered this guy when I was looking for 1936 World Wide Gum Cubs. Learned that he was shot three times by his showgirl girlfriend in 1932, who then planned to commit suicide. That story was maybe partly the inspiration for "The Natural." He wouldn't press charges and was back on the field in a few weeks. Later, his vote against an ex-Yankee getting a full share of playoff money led to the Yankees being quite hostile to the Cubs in the World Series, which might have contributed to the famous "called shot" by Babe Ruth.

I didn't buy the 1936 card, but discovered I had this one already!

Well, I discovered this set while playing on eBay, and didn't have any cards from it and didn't have any 1922 cards, so I went fishing the right card (Cub) to buy. And then I found Marty! He only played two years, ten years apart. But that's not the trivia. As a scout he rather famously declared that Ted Williams was too fragile to play baseball. He was, er, mistaken.

Mr. Schaefer makes two lists. Because he kills it in the wacky trivia department. He once stole first base. From second. You know, going the wrong way. That's illegal now.
He used to wear rain gear onto the field in bad weather, causing the umpires to send him back to change out of it.
He went on to vaudeville, where his routine was the inspiration for the Frank Sinatra/Gene Kelly musical "Take Me Out the the Ball Game."

1/23/18
I bought this specifically because of the silly trivia. This is the guy credited with first rubbing mud on baseballs. Find the video about this guy and his ancestors. It's kind of awesome.

11/23/22
Discovered this guy when I read "The Glory of Their Times." Fun book; you should read it. He was considered the fastest player in the league, so they arranged to have him race a horse around the bases. He said that he was leading at second base, but got crowded out by the horse around the shortstop position and backed off. Mr. Lobert said that Bill Klemm told him he lost by a nose. Mr. Lobert also said that was impossible, "as you can plainly see...."
This card is beautiful.

Well, I stalked this card for a long time. I don't have any T205s (my favorite set) with this color combo. But more importantly, Mr. McBride is the player with the lowest career batting average of anyone with over 5000 at bats. Which is fantastic.