Oddest All-Star Pairings

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

By that I mean post the two guys you find it hardest to believe have the same number of All-Star Appearances.

I'll start:

Steve Sax and Frank Thomas have the same number of All-star appearances with 5 each.

[packs]

Robin Yount and Andy Pettitte were both 3 time all stars

Hard to believe Yount, a two-time MVP. 3,000 hit club member, and HOFer, was only on the team 3 times.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I agree on Yount, but there's gotta be a guy worse than Pettite who's made 3. I was torn between Steve Sax and Buddy Rosar at 5 games and I'd take Pettite over either one of them!

[packs]

I have a good one but I guess it comes with an asterisk:

Babe Ruth and Cristian Guzman were both 2 time all stars.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

LOL yeah I thought about going that route but it seemed like cheating. Let's keep it to guys whose careers started after 1933.

[Mike D.]

Tim Salmon, Kirk Gibson, and I all have made zero all star games.

[rats60]

Mike Schmidt and Elston Howard 12 games. The greatest 3rd baseman in NL history and a non Hall of Famer. How was Schmidt not in more games?

Albert Pujols and Harvey Kuenn 10 games. The best player of the last 40 years and another non Hofer. How does Pujols only make 10 AS teams?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Howard and Kuenn at 12 and 10 are crazy

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Mike D.

Tim Salmon, Kirk Gibson, and I all have made zero all star games.

Gibson was selected twice, he just opted not to go both times.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Howard and Kuenn at 12 and 10 are crazy

Here is another interesting one, catchers who played in 11 all star games

Bill Dickey
Gary Carter
Carlton Fisk
Bill Freehan
Del Crandall

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by rats60

Here is another interesting one, catchers who played in 11 all star games

Bill Dickey
Gary Carter
Carlton Fisk
Bill Freehan
Del Crandall

Theres such a lack of good catchers, I guess the good and semi-decent ones stand out. John Stearns was a 4X All-Star.

[packs]

HOFer Fergie Jenkins, winner of the Cy Young award in 1971 and a top 3 finisher 4 other times has the same number of all star appearances (three) as sometimes average closer Jay Howell.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

I agree on Yount, but there's gotta be a guy worse than Pettite who's made 3. I was torn between Steve Sax and Buddy Rosar at 5 games and I'd take Pettite over either one of them!

Johnny Edwards, Jim Wilson and Jack Kramer at 3 along with HOFers Fergie Jenkins, Robin Yount and likely HOFer Omar Vizquel.

[steve B]

How many of these came after they started the rule that every team had to have someone on the ASG roster?

[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Gibson was selected twice, he just opted not to go both times.

Umm...yeah, me too.

[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by steve B

How many of these came after they started the rule that every team had to have someone on the ASG roster?

Yes, the rule that gave us such gems as “two time all-star Scott Cooper”’.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by steve B

How many of these came after they started the rule that every team had to have someone on the ASG roster?

Well considering the rule is from 1935, pretty much all of them.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by rats60

Well considering the rule is from 1935, pretty much all of them.

I thought it was much newer than that, sometime in the 1980's or early 90's?

[sthoemke]

All these players all had 10 all-star appearances. (*=HOFer)

Garvey will problably be the only one not in the Hall-of-Fame.

Luis Aparicio*
Steve Carlton*
Steve Garvey
Tom Glavine*
Rickey Henderson*
Billy Herman*
Randy Johnson*
George Kell*
Joe Medwick*
Johnny Mize*
Joe Morgan*
David Ortiz
Kirby Puckett*
Albert Pujols
Pee Wee Reese*
Ryne Sandberg*
Red Schoendienst*
Enos Slaughter*
Ichiro Suzuki

[howard38]

Originally Posted by rats60

Mike Schmidt and Elston Howard 12 games. The greatest 3rd baseman in NL history and a non Hall of Famer. How was Schmidt not in more games?

Albert Pujols and Harvey Kuenn 10 games. The best player of the last 40 years and another non Hofer. How does Pujols only make 10 AS teams?

For a few years in the 50s-60s there were two all star games allowing good players like Howard to appear in more than they otherwise would have.

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by howard38

For a few years in the 50s-60s there were two all star games allowing good players like Howard to appear in more than they otherwise would have.

1959 to 1962 - 2 AS games