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Who are your top 5 most "fascinating" players?
You know what I mean. Who are the players whose legends are fascinating/interesting to you? Mine:
1) Cobb 2) Dimaggio 3) Paige 4) Foxx 5) Gehrig |
1. Mickey Mantle
2. Jackie Robinson 3. Ted Williams 4. Roberto Clemente 5. Babe Ruth |
Jennings
Evers McLean Brown George Gibson |
Art Irwin--Two families in two different cities discovered only after he drowned
Deacon White--Believed earth flat John Ward King Kelly Old Hoss Radbourn |
1. Pete Reiser
2. Monty Ward 3. Moe Berg 4. Rube Waddel 5. Rube Foster |
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Charlie Faust Rube Waddell Rabbit Maranville Van Lingle Mungo Billy Maharg |
Top 5:
Cobb Gehrig Clemente Ted Williams Ruth Rube Waddell deserves an honorable mention because of all the great stories Jackie Robinson should also be mentioned, and is perhaps in a class of his own. Not many baseball players would also be considered an American hero. |
Bugs Raymond
Rube Waddell Mike Donlin Christy Mathewson Ted Williams |
Dummy Hoy
Dummy Taylor Dummy Kihm Richard Sipek Curtis Pride |
Ty Cobb
Hal Chase Mordecai Brown Mike Donlin Hugh Jennings |
Bugs Raymond
Ty Cobb Roberto Clemente Ed Delahanty Rube Waddell |
Satchell Paige
Ty Cobb - great biography start to finish Ruth - really liked his bio up until he joined Yanks Ali/Cassius Clay Nolan Ryan Jim Thorpe |
Joe Jackson
Paige Ruth Cobb Bender |
Jackie Robinson
Gil Hodges Carl Furillo Lou Gehrig Babe Ruth |
Roberto Clemente
Honus Wagner Jackie Robinson Josh Gibson Shoeless Joe Jackson |
Babe Ruth
Hal Chase Mickey Mantle Shoeless Joe Jackson Jackie Robinson Honorable Mention: Lou Gehrig Christy Mathewson Joe DiMaggio Rube Waddell |
Charles Bender
Tony Horton Wally Yonamine Jackie Robinson Christy Mathewson |
1. Hal Chase
2. Joe Jackson 3. Ed Delahanty 4. Rube Waddell 5. Moe Berg |
Jay wins with Irwin. This SABR bio is crazy.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/e5e7bfa4 Having two families only scratches the surface. Quote:
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Old Judge : 1/3 of millennials still believe the world is flat !!!!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorn.../#50a51f327ec6 |
- Joe Jackson
- Moe Berg - Wade Boggs - Mordecai Brown - Satchel Paige |
Bugs Raymond
Germany Scaheffer Rube Waddell Hal Chase Larry McLean What can I say? Flakiness intrigues me. |
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Esterbrook Bunning Reggie Jackson Ty Cobb SABR has some great bios of the early years. Just throwing out 5 for fun. Reggie is there b/c they made a candy bar after him like Ruth. |
1. Urban Shocker
2. Joe Jackson 3. Billy Martin 4. Moe Berg 5. Wes Covington |
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My list of 5 most fascinating players: 1. Moe Berg 2. Hal Chase 3. Jackie Robinson 4. Ted Williams 5. Babe Ruth |
Mine would be....
1 Cap Anson 2 Cy Young 3 Turkey Donlin 4 Ty Cobb 5 Grover Cleveland Alexander With Anson the most fascinating, as arguably the premier 19th century superstar and original hit king. |
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Babe Ruth
Satchell Paige Ed Delahanty Rube Waddell Jackie Robinson |
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Ty Cobb
Babe Ruth Marty Bergen Rube Waddell George Moriarity |
1. Babe Ruth
2. Joe Jackson 3. Ty Cobb 4. Pete Rose 5. Ed Cicotte |
1; Jackie
2; The Babe 3: Shoeless Joe More recently 4: Bill "Spaceman" Lee 5: Mark "The Bird" Fidrych |
Oh yeah, Clemente would be an Honorable Mention for me for sure.
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Maryland's Best
I will go with some from the Maryland's Best Starting Line-up.
1- Babe Ruth 2- Home Run Baker 3- Jimmie Foxx 4- Lefty Grove 5- Al Kaline plus 6- Cal Ripken, Jr. 7- Harold Baines |
Lots I would agree with.
My list for the best dinner party to listen to stories would be: Joe Jackson Alabama Pitts Dock Ellis Ty Cobb Rube Waddell |
In no particular order . . .
Christy Mathewson, the ultimate All-American boy Smoky Joe Wood, set the world on fire in 1912 Moose Skowron, my boyhood idol Bobby Thomson, Giant hero, giant mensch Prince Oana, the pride of Waipahu |
1-Joe Jackson
2-Babe Ruth 3-Buck Weaver 4-Ted Williams 5-Ty Cobb Had to put in a word for Tony Conigliaro, a candle that burned bright but too fast. |
1. Cobb
2. LaJoie 3. N. Ryan 4. Joe Jackson 5. B. Ruth |
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1. Jackie Robinson
2. Ty Cobb 3. Jim Thorpe 4. Casey Stengel 5. Rube Waddell |
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My current Top 5 are:
Attachment 317116 Bunny Brief Attachment 317118 Jack Kloza Attachment 317119 Wing Maddox Attachment 317120 Max Manning Attachment 317121 and Lou Gehrig when he was known as Lou Long |
1) Lou Brissie
2) Jack Lucky Lohrke 3) Bert Shepard 4) Ted Williams 5) Steve Dalkowski (Thought somebody would've mentioned Dalkowski by now!) |
Addie Joss
Moose Haas Mordecai Brown Pete Gray Satchel Paige |
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