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ErikV
06-05-2015, 04:10 PM
The response went pretty well for the Cracker Jack e-book. I decided to do
one on my favorite ballplayer. Take a look:
https://steller.co/s/4WswKDTDjZ9
When you're done post a card of your favorite baseball player.
ErikV
clydepepper
06-05-2015, 06:13 PM
I have always found it difficult to choose between my two favorites:
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birdman42
06-05-2015, 06:16 PM
Nicely done, Erik. Here's my guy.
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Deerfoot was fast, stealing 88 bases in 1912. Discovered on the same scouting trip as Walter Johnson, he was Johnson's roommate for many years. All-around good guy. Stuck with the Senators as a coach until 1953. He died in the locker room after hitting fungoes all day at spring training.
7nohitter
06-05-2015, 07:04 PM
Nolan Ryan
Joshwesley
06-05-2015, 08:11 PM
Seabron red booles
And
Napoleon Lajoie
Good Naps!
yanksfan09
06-05-2015, 08:40 PM
Nice work.
I'd have to go with Gehrig's partner in crime...
packs
06-05-2015, 08:51 PM
Mine is Lou. A tragic figure and all around great guy. Not to mention a heck of a ball player.
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DeanH3
06-05-2015, 09:08 PM
Lou for me too. Great job on putting that together. Gehrig fits the bill as a true American hero.
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m52/DHack3/BB%20Cards/img313_zps1dc3e5a4.jpg
z28jd
06-05-2015, 10:11 PM
Definitely Dots Miller. I'm still mad at the Pirates for trading him
JoeyFarino
06-05-2015, 11:07 PM
Ruth and Hank Aaron
SMPEP
06-05-2015, 11:16 PM
I'msure this will be the only vote ... but Dick Groat. Sorry Clemente and Dots Miller. :D
t206fix
06-05-2015, 11:33 PM
Willie Mays
Bosox Blair
06-05-2015, 11:43 PM
Ole Spoke for me:
MattyC
06-06-2015, 12:00 AM
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jbl79
06-06-2015, 12:25 AM
Double X and Ted
rgpete
06-06-2015, 12:50 PM
Pete Rose is my favorite and Ty Cobb. The autographed postcard I got is from 1977 when they were a cost of a postage stamp.
Jdoggs
06-06-2015, 12:51 PM
Babe Ruth the greatest player of all time!
rgpete
06-06-2015, 01:14 PM
Babe Ruth and Joe Dimaggio were great in their times with the records they set.
Joshchisox08
06-06-2015, 04:14 PM
For the DEAD-BALL Era and all Time Mr. Cobb second to none. He is the greatest player of all time. For someone to not admire him at least and call them self a baseball fan is just not right.
Growing up "The Big Hurt" Frank Thomas and PK Paulie Paul Konerko
Now Jose Abreu, Avaisail Garcia (going to be the next Magglio).
Chris Sale I love his old school attitude you plunk a teammate of his you better watch your ass next inning he'll get revenge. It's hard not to like a player you've been watching their whole career to this point and see him on the cuff of being a Cy Young winner (if he ever had a good team).
Mark Buehrle .... of course I still check in on how he's doing IMO he can pitch another 8 years or so with his mechanics. 10 wins a season automatic. Could possibly/maybe dreaming a bit be a 300 winner.
uffda51
06-06-2015, 05:02 PM
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rats60
06-06-2015, 06:13 PM
Pre War
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b127/rats60/Image%20386.jpg (http://s18.photobucket.com/user/rats60/media/Image%20386.jpg.html)
Post War
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b127/rats60/clemente001-1.jpg (http://s18.photobucket.com/user/rats60/media/clemente001-1.jpg.html)
MartyFromCANADA
06-06-2015, 07:12 PM
As a Canadian baseball history buff, the one and only;
George Gibson
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To watch in person, loved watching this guy smash homers;
Carlos Delgado
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bnorth
06-06-2015, 07:35 PM
All time and that I got to see play in person many times is Wade Boggs. Old gentlemen I never got to see is Teddy Ballgame.
Joshchisox08
06-06-2015, 07:42 PM
As a Canadian baseball history buff, the one and only;
George Gibson
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To watch in person, loved watching this guy smash homers;
Carlos Delgado
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Not sure about Delgado he wouldn't stand for the National Anthem then again IDK if I would either. Could never decide if I loved that or hated that.
rjackson44
06-06-2015, 07:45 PM
Reggie
drumback
06-06-2015, 08:03 PM
Brooks Robinson.
Econteachert205
06-06-2015, 08:04 PM
Pre war ty cobb
Post war ted williams
Modern tim lincecum
All time satchel paige
GoldenAge50s
06-06-2015, 08:15 PM
I grew up following him from Spring Training of 1950 & idolizing him throughout his whole career.
Thromdog
06-06-2015, 08:26 PM
Steroid era be damned....Pudge was my fave.....
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Breckenridge, Colorado. February of 1999.
So my friends and I meet at the base to have a drink after a morning of skiing, and I noticed Pudge at the next table talking to someone. I asked for a picture and he said "not now, I'm talking to this guy". I left him alone.
5 minutes later he got up and looked at me. Said to me "you ready for that picture?" We jumped up and went outside.
After the picture he shook my hand and told us to have a good trip and walked off.
Super cool move on his part.....
My roommate, having a bladder the size of a walnut through his post college career, had to take a piss, and he followed Pudge into the bathroom.
My roommate came out a few minutes later and said...."Guys, you aren't gonna believe this but Pudge just took the loudest shit I've ever heard!"
True story. One I'll remember forever.
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Brian Van Horn
06-06-2015, 09:12 PM
Not even remotely close:
jcmtiger
06-06-2015, 10:29 PM
Of course my man Ty!!!!!!
Joe
Rich Klein
06-07-2015, 03:35 AM
Cesar Cedeno
Jim Wynn
Derek Jeter
mrvster
06-07-2015, 05:32 AM
80's guy here:)...
Nolan Ryan
Cal Ripken Jr
Louieman
06-07-2015, 09:45 AM
The Thrill...
ALR-bishop
06-07-2015, 09:46 AM
Grew up in St Louis
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Bigdaddy
06-07-2015, 12:21 PM
Pre-war, post-war, and everything in between:
mantleman
06-07-2015, 12:42 PM
Don Mattingly :)
ejharrington
06-07-2015, 01:40 PM
The one and only Kong, the Sky King!
Jason
06-07-2015, 01:51 PM
Prewar Dutch Revelle
Postwar BB
Current Bryce Bryce
Exhibitman
06-07-2015, 02:09 PM
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71buc
06-07-2015, 02:25 PM
Although I am currently partial to Cutch and Altuve...Hank and Roberto are my all time favorites. Here are original photos of both in their first spring trainings.
itjclarke
06-07-2015, 09:04 PM
The Thrill...
I love it!!!! As a left handed first baseman named Clarke, who was 9-10 when the Thrill arrived in SF, he was it!
Can't say he's my fav anymore though.
Pre-War-- probably Ruth (Gehrig, Matty, WaJo, Cobb, all a close 2nd)
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Post-War-- probably Clemente (Mays, Jackie, Snider, Mantle, Williams, all close 2nd)
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fbrockel
06-07-2015, 10:31 PM
Cha cha Orlando Cepeda
Boog Powell
OldEnglishD
06-08-2015, 06:32 AM
My favorite since I was 8 years old.
t206blogcom
06-08-2015, 07:43 AM
As a kid, my favorites were Will Clark and Harmon Killebrew.
Currently, Bryce Harper and Anthony Rendon.
http://www.t206blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2012-Topps-Allen-Ginter-Bryce-Harper-Mini-Gold-Border-PSA-10-GEM-Mint.jpg
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TUM301
06-08-2015, 08:06 AM
In order, another Harmon Killebrew guy, Johnny Bench, El Tiante, and Freddie Lynn. Players I`ve never seen as follows, Joe Jackson, Ted, and Sandy K.
I got this card when I was 4, along with a bunch of other terrific cards (Mays, Berra, Maz), and I remember thinking they were great. My mom must have told people that I liked baseball cards, because I also remember one of my aunts handing me a panel from the back of a cereal box to cut up. It was great. Also got to meet and talk to the Great Roberto when I was 10---still thrilled about it.
Mark70Z
06-08-2015, 03:56 PM
All-time favorite, hero growing up, Brooks "Vacuum Cleaner", "Mr. Impossible", "Hoover", etc. Robinson.
39special
06-08-2015, 04:22 PM
Carl Furillo.I grew up in the same area,and got to know him.The signed '58 is the first older card I ever had.At the time I was buying packs(late '70's) and trying to build sets.It was the start of my really reading about baseball history and collecting '50's and '60's cards.
e107collector
06-08-2015, 04:38 PM
My fav's
Honus Wagner, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Mordecai Brown, Christy Mathewson and Nap Lajoie.
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LKeeler
06-08-2015, 04:40 PM
My favorites: Willie Keeler, Gehrig, The Splendid Splinter, and Todd Helton!
When Terry Forster played with the Dodgers, he lived down the street from my friends. We used to go knock on his door and ask his wife if Terry could come out and play with us. He almost always did, he would come out and throw the ball around, or he would take us down to the beach and rent us Boogie Boards. Really a nice guy, and funny as could be. Three little kids walking around wearing plastic batting helmets on our heads hanging out with by far the worlds best pitcher in all of baseball ever (at least to us). So yeah, my favorite baseball player. If you are too young to remember, there was a thing with David Letterman where Letterman called him a "fat tub of goo," which is why my title on this.
rdixon1208
06-08-2015, 08:15 PM
Greg Maddux
leaflover
06-08-2015, 10:03 PM
Max West in the PCL and Ernie Banks in the NL