The Yankees five future Hall of Famers on the roster, in addition to manager Joe McCarthy (would have been a half dozen if Gehrig hadn't been forced out by ALS):
DiMaggio
Lefty Gomez
Joe Gordon
Red Ruffing
For the Reds there was Ernie Lombardi, manager Bill McKechnie, and Al Simmons, who I am not familiar with and does not appear in the composite box score above.
Source: http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/hof.shtml
Simmons is playing out the string; his best days are long behind him. He’s just there as a PH if needed. Kind of like Jimmie Foxx at this point.
Lombardi I just don’t know that much about, even though I’ve been to the Reds HOF at Great American Ballpark (and I’ve been to Cooperstown, too).
The others are mostly pitchers, that were admittedly pretty good.
Even so, my original post still stands. I just don’t recognize the players. But it could be that I wouldn’t anyway because I never saw them play and my dad didn’t talk about them. I went through the same thing with my son when we went to Cooperstown last March. I could say a few things about the players until we got to the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. Then he couldn’t get me to shut up from that point on.