Guy Hecker was one of the best hitting Pitchers in baseball history, but as he played in the 1880s, he is one of the game's better forgotten hurlers. 

Many of the early baseball players suffered from an addiction to alcohol, but we have to wonder if any of them had anything on Pete Browning, an Outfielder who once quipped, "I can't hit the ball until I hit the bottle."   He hit the bottle a lot, but he also hit the baseball at a high level.