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MLB a little fun - Phogge - 02-22-2021

I've been reading Top Ten lists today. What are your Top Ten all time?

Mine:

1 Ruth
2 Mays
3 Cobb
4 Williams
5 Bonds
6 Gehrig
7 Walter Johnson
8 Hornsby
9 Spahn
10 Aaron

Musial would be 10.5

RE: MLB a little fun - Brickcity - 02-22-2021

(02-22-2021, 03:22 PM)Phogge Wrote:  I've been reading Top Ten lists today. What are your Top Ten all time?

Mine:

1 Ruth
2 Mays
3 Cobb
4 Williams
5 Bonds
6 Gehrig
7 Walter Johnson
8 Hornsby
9 Spahn
10 Aaron

Musial would be 10.5

Pretty ballsy putting Bonds in your top ten! (Especially top 5). Putting the issue of PEDs aside, he probably was one of the top five to ten most dominant players of all time.

RE: MLB a little fun - BostonCard - 02-22-2021

"Putting the issue of PEDs aside" is doing a lot of work there.  Like, I get that Bonds was dominant even before he was known to have become involved with BALCO, but I do wonder where he would have wound up in the all-time pantheon had he not used PEDs.

BC

RE: MLB a little fun - BobK - 02-22-2021

I can only do in my life awareness time

1. Mays
2. Williams
3. Bonds
4. Koufax
5. Aaron
6. Musial
7. Spahn
8. Marichal
9. Gwynn
10. Teddy Beard

RE: MLB a little fun - BostonCard - 02-22-2021

No Mariano Rivera?  Only player to ever be inducted unanimously.

BC

RE: MLB a little fun - Phogge - 02-22-2021

Bobbbbb, you and I are the only ones who remember Ted Beard. The best hitters in the PCL when we were kids were Bob Dellinger, Max West, DePietro and Joe Brovia. For power nobody beat Bilko except for Luke Easter and he played far fewer games.

RE: MLB a little fun - BobK - 02-22-2021

In 1952 with the Hollywood Stars the 5-8 Beard hit 4 HRs in one game. He was also near the top in steals for several years in The PCL. Teddy played with the Seals 1955-56
Of course I could have named Ellis Kinder

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kindeel01.shtml

RE: MLB a little fun - SF_Cardinal_Fan - 02-23-2021

Mussina
Hinch
McDowell
Lowrie
Sprague Jr.
Garko
Fuld
Carey
Peterson
Ballard

RE: MLB a little fun - Phogge - 02-23-2021

Egad, a provincial. But where is Duffy?

RE: MLB a little fun - BobK - 02-23-2021

Plus Hammond
McCarthy
Williams
Steve Dunning

RE: MLB a little fun - jfredmuggs - 02-23-2021

1. Bill Renna
2. Frank Kellert
3. Grady Hatton
4. Pumpsie Green
5. Ken Aspromonte
6. Sal Taormina
7. Harry Malmberg
8. Albie Pearson
9. Tommy Umphlett
10. Ed Sadowski

RE: MLB a little fun - BobK - 02-23-2021

Plus
Marty Keough
Haywood Sullivan
Leo Kiely

RE: MLB a little fun - jfredmuggs - 02-23-2021

Let’s not forget Nini Tornay.

RE: MLB a little fun - BobK - 02-23-2021

https://www.tcdb.com/GalleryT.cfm/tid/2291/col/1/yea/1953/San-Francisco-Seals?sCardNum=&sNote=&sSetName=&sBrand=

RE: MLB a little fun - Phogge - 02-23-2021

And the opponents:

Memo Luna
Fred Richards
Chuck Connors
Carlos Bernier
Lou Slater
Clarence Maddern
Piper Davis
Spider Jorgensen
Two Gun Gettel
Artie Wilson
Earl Rapp
Ray Ortieg
Eddie Basinski

RE: MLB a little fun - BobK - 02-23-2021

Who was the Sacramento Pitcher Johnson? with all the antices on the mound?

lex24 - lex24 - 02-23-2021

Players I’ve seen. That goes from ‘62 forward. By position

C         Bench
1B       McCovey
2B.      Morgan
SS.      Jeter
3B.      Schmidt
LF.       Bonds
CF.       Mays
RF.       Aaron
RHP.     Maddox
LHP.     Koufax
Closer.  Rivera

Second team

C.         Posey
1B.       Votto
2B.        Kent
SS.        Ozzie
3B.        ARod
LF.         Henderson
CF.        Trout
RF.        Clemente

RHP.       Clemens
LHP.        Kershaw

Closer.     Eckersley

DH.         Ortiz and Thome
(02-22-2021, 03:22 PM)Phogge Wrote:  I've been reading Top Ten lists today. What are your Top Ten all time?

Mine:

1 Ruth
2 Mays
3 Cobb
4 Williams
5 Bonds
6 Gehrig
7 Walter Johnson
8 Hornsby
9 Spahn
10 Aaron

Musial would be 10.5

Poor Cy Young. 511 wins and no respect :)

RE: MLB a little fun - BobK - 02-23-2021

Chet Johnson. A clown on the mound. Won 22 games with the Seals 1950. A fact I didn’t know until now. 5 years with the Sacramento Solons in the 50s

RE: MLB a little fun - Mick - 02-23-2021

Ten MLB Career Leaders that I would pay to see:

1. Babe Ruth.  I want him to pitch and catch.
2. Josh Gibson.  Buck Weaver said that only Josh and the Babe made the sound when baseball met bat in which you absolutely knew that one or the other was at the plate.
3.  Ty Cobb.  Only Triple Crown winner to lead league in stolen bases when he won the Triple Crown.
4.  Joe Jackson.  #2 best hitter for average in MLB history.
5.  Pete Rose.  MLB hits leader.
6.  Barry Bonds.  MLB HR leader, BB leader and IBB leader.
7.  Sandy Koufax.  Perfect game, 3x unanimous Cy Young award winner (when a single CY Young was awarded for one league).
8.  Ricky Henderson.  MLB stolen base leader.
9.  Carl Hubbell.  I want to see King Carl-- or anyone else -- strike out six Hall of Famers in a row (Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons, Joe Cronin and Lefty Gomez.  Yes, I know the last one is a pitcher). Winner of 24 consecutive games, still a record.
10. Ted Williams.  MLB OPS leader and if he hadn't lost five full seasons in two separate wars, he would have been the most amazing hitter in history.

And the ten I'd really pay to see:

1. Willie Mays
2. Barry Bonds
3. Christy Mathewson
4. Willie McCovey
5. Carl Hubbell
6. Mel Ott
7. Buster Posey
8. Frankie Frisch
9. Juan Marichal
10. Brandon Crawford

RE: MLB a little fun - BostonCard - 02-23-2021

Interesting that 3 was an jerk, 4-6 are, shall we say, controversial (and one or more may also be a-holes).

BC