Cornelius "Con" Strouthers was a baseball manager of the Augusta Tourists of the South Atlantic League that invited what player, who in 1999 was voted by editors at the "Sporting News" as the 3rd on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players"?
Ty Cobb Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed The Georgia Peach, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1936 Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes (98.2%); no other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992. In 1999, editors at the "Sporting News" ranked Ty Cobb 3rd on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players".
Peter C. Bjarkman Peter C. Bjarkman (born May 19, 1941) is a baseball historian, freelance author, and commentator on the baseball played in Cuba after the 1959 Communist revolution. He currently provides regular internet commentary on Cuban League baseball as a contributing writer for LaVidaBaseball.com and as Senior Writer for the US-based internet website BaseballdeCuba.com and has appeared frequently on radio and television sports talk shows as an observer and analyst of the Cuban national sport. He has also published more than three dozen books ranging in scope from Major League Baseball history and college and professional basketball history to sports biographies for young adult readers. In spring 2017 Bjarkman was honored with a SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) Henry Chadwick Award, the society’s highest research recognition established in 2009 “to honor baseball's great researchers – historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists – for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past.”