To follow up on justbaseball's thread, I wonder if the answers might be different if you were offered the opportunity to sit and talk for one hour with any person associated with baseball. Who would you choose? Still Babe Ruth?...or would people like Branch Rickey, Leo Durocher, Billy Martin, Denny McClain, Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe, Bill Buckner, George Steinbrenner, Mookie Wilson and many, many others come into the equation?
I know for me spending an hour would be different than who I would love to have autograph an item. Given one hour to talk with any single person, I think I would pick Pee Wee Reese. Admittedly the "Boys of Summer" influences that thinking but he seemed to be a person of great integrity, tremendously respected by most every teammate, played in some of the greatest and most memorable games ever, played when baseball integrated, when the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn, and was a great player...willing to admit he did not want the final out of the 1955 series hit to him.
This is a little like "Field of Dreams" so if you got to have a baseball dream, who would be in it and why?
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