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Originally Posted by stlcardsfan
What do you mean phantom? is there a list of known "phantom" players. I assume its players who have been noted as played but no record of it.
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By "phantom," I mean they were on major league teams during either the regular season and/or playoffs, but never played in a regular season (or playoffs) major league game. So they were not really major leaguers. Sometimes these players are known as members of the Bill Sharman Society, named after the Basketball HOFer who was with the Brooklyn Dodgers in September of 1951. Keith Olbermann coined that term.
There is a list of known such players on the SABR website in its Research Tools section under the Heading "Near Major Leaguers."