American League Retirements 1939
#	Name	Team	Pos	Age
4	Lou Gehrig	New York Yankees	1B	36
17	Bob Prichard	Washington Senators	1B	22
27	Ossie Bluege	Washington Senators	1B	39
32	Jim Shilling	Cleveland Indians	2B	26
28	Ollie Bejma	Chicago White Sox	2B	32
37	Johnny Gerlach	Chicago White Sox	3B	23
5	Jimmy Dykes	Chicago White Sox	3B	43
23	Bob McNamara	Philadelphia Athletics	3B	23
22	Moe Berg	Boston Red Sox	C	38
18	Art Jorgens	New York Yankees	C	35
30, 36	Harry O'Neill	Philadelphia Athletics	C	23
35	Tony Rensa	Chicago White Sox	C	38
-	Eddie Silber	St. Louis Browns	PH	25
6	Tommy Thompson	Chicago White Sox	PH	30
6	Mel Almada	St. Louis Browns	OF	27
34	Elmer Gedeon	Washington Senators	OF	23
36	Alex Pitko	Washington Senators	OF	25
46	Hank Steinbacher	Chicago White Sox	OF	27
33	Tommy Thompson	St. Louis Browns	OF	30
-	Dick Bass	Washington Senators	P	33
19	Harry Boyles	Chicago White Sox	P	26
16	Johnny Broaca	Cleveland Indians	P	30
20	Ed Cole	St. Louis Browns	P	31
15	Jimmy DeShong	Washington Senators	P	30
45	Vic Frazier	Chicago White Sox	P	35
16	George Gill	Detroit Tigers	P	31
19, 22	George Gill	St. Louis Browns	P	31
50	Bill Holland	Washington Senators	P	24
16	Fred Johnson	St. Louis Browns	P	46
22	Harry Kelley	Washington Senators	P	34
21, 25, 27	Harry Kimberlin	St. Louis Browns	P	31
34	Johnny Marcum	Chicago White Sox	P	30
14	Johnny Marcum	St. Louis Browns	P	30
-	Walt Masters	Philadelphia Athletics	P	33
20	Sam Page	Philadelphia Athletics	P	24
35	Mike Palagyi	Washington Senators	P	22
21	Roy Parmelee	Philadelphia Athletics	P	33
21	Jim Reninger	Philadelphia Athletics	P	25
21	Jim Schelle	Philadelphia Athletics	P	23
31	Dave Smith	Philadelphia Athletics	P	25
31	Floyd Stromme	Cleveland Indians	P	23
30	Lefty Sullivan	Cleveland Indians	P	23
21	Russ Van Atta	St. Louis Browns	P	33
26	Jim Walkup	Detroit Tigers	P	30
24	Jim Walkup	St. Louis Browns	P	30
25	Monte Weaver	Boston Red Sox	P	33
4	Sig Gryska	St. Louis Browns	SS	25
-	Bob Neighbors	St. Louis Browns	SS	22
39	Hal Quick	Washington Senators	SS	22
6	Boze Berger	Boston Red Sox	SS	30
14	Wayne Ambler	Philadelphia Athletics	SS	24
#	Name	Team	Pos	Age
1939 American League Retirements

1939 N.L. Retirements

	Find out which players made their Major League debut in the American League during the 1939 season as this group of players bid farewell to their field's of dreams. Goose Goslin played for eighteen seasons and averaged one-hundred twenty-seven games played per season. In 1938, during his final at-bat, he twisted his back and was replaced at the plate by a pinch-hitter for the first time in his Major League career. Did you know that future hall of fame pitcher Walter Johnson ended his Major League career in 1927 with a pinch-hit appearance? During the final game of the season pitcher Tom Zachary, who had just given up Babe Ruth's sixtieth home run of the season, was lifted and Johnson replaced him at the plate.