Favorite Five

Roberto Clemente
Pete Rose
Jim Palmer
Johnny Bench
Brooks Robinson

I grew up in Omaha, going to the College World Series every year. So my top 5 are those I remember from the CWS...

Bob Horner, Arizona St.
Mookie Wilson, South Carolina
Spike Owen, Texas
Barry Bonds, Arizona St.
Pete Incaviglia, Oklahoma St.

Players I saw a lot of...

-Mike Matheny
-Albert Pujols

These are players that were major favorites, but I didn't get to actually see too much of...
-Roberto Clemente---> read many books about him and have always idolized him for what he did on and off the field
-Ozzie Smith--->The Wizard; he retired when I was about 7 I guess
And I'm gonna cheat a little bit on this last one.. I don't know when he joined MLB, but I love watching David Eckstein play too!

Chuck Howley, Larry Cole, Mel Renfro, Roger Staubach, Bob Lilly...we didn't have baseball in Dallas when I was growing up.

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Originally posted by puma1:
Chuck Howley, Larry Cole, Mel Renfro, Roger Staubach, Bob Lilly...we didn't have baseball in Dallas when I was growing up.

Bob Lilly , Randy White , DD Lewis , Ed Too Tall Jones and Roger.

Those were the days!!!

Roberto Clemente,Pete Rose,Carl Yastrzemski,Johnny Bench, Cal Ripken Jr.

baseball: Yount, Molitor, Bench, Puckett, Seaver

FB: Star, Hourning, Nitschke, Bo Jackson, Reggie White

Mickey Mantle
Lou Gehrig
Stan Musial
Nolan Ryan
Don Drysdale

MTS,
How old are you?

Mine would be in this order
Willie Mays
Mickey Mantle
Stan Musial
Sandy Koufax
Ernie Banks

In no particular order:

Rollie Fingers
Nolan Ryan
Vida Blue
Tom Seaver
Catfish Hunter

Ryne Sandberg
Ozzie Smith
Nolan Ryan
Benito Santiago
Kirby Puckett

yaz
rico
tony c
johnny bench
pete rose

i went to the bench,yaz induction,one of them was the first LL player in the HOF. that was surprising.

and pumpsy green , always loved the name.

Joe Morgan
Johnny Bench
Tony Perez
Mickey Mantle
Willie Mays

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Originally posted by 20dad:
yaz
rico
tony c
johnny bench
pete rose

i went to the bench,yaz induction,one of them was the first LL player in the HOF. that was surprising.

and pumpsy green , always loved the name.

Good night Pumpsie Green, wherever you are! - Eddie Andelman

For those who don't know Eddie Andelman was the father of sports talk radio before there were sports talk radio stations. He had a show on Boston radio Sunday nights back in the late 60's. His show ended with "Good night Pumpsie Green, wherever you are!" Pumpsie Green was the first black Red Sox. His brother is Cornell Green from the Cowboys.

Mantle, and Mays for sure.
Brocks Robinson was my favorite.
Clemente was grace in motion.
And Pete Rose taught me how the game should be played ALL the time.
Hustle.

EH

Munson
Murcer
Guidry
Nettles
Seaver

Willie Mays
Tom Seaver
Jackie Robinson
Roberto Clemente
Bob Gibson

There are so many favorites, but I'll limit my 5 to guys that I actually got to see play.
Mays
McCovey
Clemente
Koufax
Rose

Mays
Gibson
Aaron
Koufax
Brooks Robinson

Roberto Clemente
Reggie Jackson
Willie Stargell
Robin Yount
Omar Visquel

Breaking the rules here

Johnny Bench
Manny Ramirez

Anybody else notice a common theme here? Roberto Clemente. He was discovered by Branch Rickey who some believe was one of the greatest judges of talent of all time.

How about four 20 game winners on the same pitching staff in the same year?

Pat Dobson
Mike Cuellar
Dave McNally
Jim Palmer

How about 10 rings with Yogi Berra.

How about Babe Ruth the greatest player of all time.

How about Lou Gehrig who was as good as or better than Ruth.

How about Ted Williams and Joe Dimaggio. How about Ducky Wucky Medwick. Baseball is the greatest of all games.

Wade Boggs
Nolan Ryan
Cal Ripken
Tony Pena
Dale Murphy

Willie Mays
Mickey Mantle
Eddie Matthews
Bob Gibson
Luke Easter

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Originally posted by RPD:
Luke Easter

Most people probably do not recognize that name. He hit the longest homerun at the old Cleveland Stadium that has since been replaced by a football only stadium on the lake. How do you know of Luke Easter?

Favorite Hitters

Stan "the Man" Musial
Willie Mays
Hank Aaron
Roberto Clemente
Ernie Banks


Favorite Pitchers

Bob Gibson
Sandy Koufax
Don Drysdale
Juan Marichal
Ferguson Jenkins


Favorite Baseball names

Rico Petrucelli
Catfish Hunter
Harmon Killebrew
Wally Moon
Bernie Carbo

My first Major League baseball game was at old Sportsman's Park in St Louis-Cards vs Milwaukee Braves

Think about who played in that game!

Braves

Warren Spahn
Eddie Matthews
Joe Torre
Hank Aaron
Rico Carty
Felipe Alou

Cardinals

Stan Musial
Bob Gibson
Bill White
Ken Boyer
Lou Brock
Curt Flood
Tim McCarver
Bob Uecker(he was in the front row!)

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Reggie Jackson

One of my favorite baseball quotes by Reggie, "Fans don't boo nobodies."

How true, how true, how true!

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Reggie Jackson

One of my favorite baseball quotes by Reggie, "Fans don't boo nobodies."

How true, how true, how true!

That is a great line justbb! Many people say that Reggie was just too arrogant for their tastes. He never came across that way to me and I have always liked him.

In order of my appointing them to baseball saint:

Jim Fregosi (whose lap I sat on at the age of 3)
Nolan Ryan (whom I adopted after the trade - the fickleness of youth)
Willie Mays
Reggie (who only needs one name)
Tom Seaver (whose Rawlings glove I still use)

Bob Gibson
Lou Brock
Ozzie Smith
Jose Oquendo
Tommy Herr

Yea, I grew up outside of St. Louis, wanna fight about it?

Mike Schmidt
Freddie Patek
Willie Stargell
Dave Concepcion
Mark Belanger

When I posted my fav-5 I was going to include Nap Lajoie, but I didn't know who he was when I was 15 years old or younger.

I did know who Lou was because had I'd watched Pride of the Yankess several time before I was 8 years old. I knew who Mick was and and Stan the Man too. There were more than a few times when I'd stay up and listen past my bedtime to Nolan Ryan "K" more than 10. I also loved watching Don Drysdale pitch and later when he'd call Angel games with Dick Enberg my favorite Angels Broadcast duo.

I barely knew there were any other teams besides the Twins before age 15, and my list reflects that (one non-Twin).

Tony Oliva
Harmon Killebrew
Rod Carew
Bert Blyleven
Hammerin' Hank

If the age range didn't stop me at the mid-70's, my list for all-time favorites would be all Twins!

Tony Oliva
Kirby Puckett
Joe Mauer
Jack Morris
Joe Nathan



Julie

Being born in 1968, here are my five:

Yaz
Fisk
Rose
Schmidt
Garvey

Gaylord Perry
Rico Carty
Rick Manning
Joe Charboneau
Thurman Munson

Cal Ripken
Frank Howard
Eddie Murray
Mickey Mantle
Frank Thomas

Rod Carew
Jim Palmer
Tony Perez
Brooks Robinson
Fred Lynn

Hmmmm....you can make a pretty good guess about people's ages with this topic

Tough to limit it to five:

Wally Moon
Stan Musial
Lou Brock
Bob Gibson
Ozzie Smith

Hey just, I forget ....did Joe Morgan ever get elected to the Hall of Fame?

My 5

Jim Rice
Fred Lynn
Butch Hobson
Carlton fisk
Willie Stargell

Obviously I was a big Sox fan...still am actually!

For some reason I was also a Pittsburgh Pirate fan...I think it was becuase the first world Series that I really followed closely was 1979 and the "We are family" Pirates. Plus as a kid I read a lot of books on baseball and my favorite was Roberto Clemente.

I have to post cards of HOF placques...both are due to my reading their stories as a kid..

Roberto Clemente

Nap Lajoie

My two all time great non-Red sox players!

Buddy Bell
Toby Harrah
Jeff Burroughs
Jim Bibby
Jim Sunberg

Old Texas Rangers