Buzz Arlett

"Buzz" Arlett was one of the all-time great baseball players, a switch-hitting slugger and sometime pitcher. He was discovered in the Pacific Coast League by Dodgers scouts and was brought to Brooklyn in 1922, where he transformed the major leagues and turned the once-lowly Dodgers into perenniel contenders. He rehabilitated all of baseball from the Clack Sox Scandal of 1919. Ebbetts Field became known as "The House That Buzz Built."

In a fit of melancholy in 1941, George Ruth reflected that if he'd only been brought up by a major league franchise while still in his prime, it would have been he who transformed baseball as Arlett had done. H. L. Mencken was extremely skeptical.