Max West was a pretty decent outfielder/first baseman with some pretty bad teams. The highlight of his career was probably in 1940 when he was named to the NL All Star team. His career spanned a decade from 1938 to 1948 with the Boston Bees, Pirates and Reds, but he missed three seasons to the war.
Carvel Rowell is best remembered for hitting a prodigious shot high double atop the Ebbets Field scoreboard in right field that shattered the Bulova clock, sending glass cascading down on Brooklyn right fielder Dixie Walker and inspiring novelist Bernard Malamud to write “The Natural” six years later.
