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I can highly recommend 1902 Socks Seybold. He's a right fielder, so he doesn't solve the issue with catchers, but 67 contact/92 power/54 eye is pretty great.
(Of course, with an 88 overall rating, he's definitely the kind of guy you save up for... still, he's performing quite well for me, even at the AA level.)
The one issue with a lot of these earlier players is that they're so error-prone... the game tends to correct most stats for era, which explains why Seybold (who held the American League single-season record for home runs before Babe Ruth, with 16) is such a fearsome slugger by PT standards. But they don't do the same for fielding percentage, so a lot of players are quite bad at avoiding errors.
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