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Originally Posted by Cusick
I know of two efforts which have been in the developmental stage. 1) Keith Olbermann has kept a list of these guys and has encourgaed his readers to submit additions along with documentation to verify that the player was actually with the big league club. If I recall correctly, he refers to his list as the Bill Sharman Society, naming it after the basketball HOFer who was with the Brooklyn Dodgers one September, but never became a full-fledged major leaguer. 2) I ran across such a database somewhere on Baseball-reference.com a few months ago. It was in a section which invited users who had created their own databases to submit them and allow others to add to such databases. I can't manage to get back to that database now, but perhaps someone else might have some success in poking around in Baseball-reference.com and finding it.
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Beat me to it. Olbermann's the guy you want to talk to. As of 2009, there were 50 members in his Bill Sharman Society. He wanted to add Wilbur Huckle back then, but Huckle was never really on the major league roster at the time. His recall was one of those end of the year 40-man roster formalities.
As a Mets fan, I can think of, oh, maybe nine Mets who wore the uni during the regular season but never played for them. Two never saw any major league action ever--Billy Cotton and Terrel Hansen. Cotton was yet another of the Mets failed #1 picks. Hansen was a more tragic situation, though, as he had the bat in his hand, ready to pinch hit, when Jeff Torborg changed his mind and called him back.