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Old 05-20-2018, 02:30 PM
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Default 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
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1. Mickey Mantle
2. Jackie Robinson
3. Ted Williams
4. Roberto Clemente
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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
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1. Pete Reiser
2. Monty Ward
3. Moe Berg
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Charlie Faust
Rube Waddell
Rabbit Maranville
Van Lingle Mungo
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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.
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Old 05-20-2018, 04:32 PM
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Bugs Raymond
Rube Waddell
Mike Donlin
Christy Mathewson
Ted Williams
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Ty Cobb
Hal Chase
Mordecai Brown
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Roberto Clemente
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Satchell Paige
Ty Cobb - great biography start to finish
Ruth - really liked his bio up until he joined Yanks
Ali/Cassius Clay
Nolan Ryan
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Old 05-20-2018, 05:04 PM
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Joe Jackson
Paige
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Cobb
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Jackie Robinson
Gil Hodges
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Roberto Clemente
Honus Wagner
Jackie Robinson
Josh Gibson
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Babe Ruth
Hal Chase
Mickey Mantle
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Jackie Robinson

Honorable Mention:

Lou Gehrig
Christy Mathewson
Joe DiMaggio
Rube Waddell
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Charles Bender
Tony Horton
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1. Hal Chase
2. Joe Jackson
3. Ed Delahanty
4. Rube Waddell
5. Moe Berg
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Old 05-20-2018, 07:17 PM
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Jay wins with Irwin. This SABR bio is crazy.

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/e5e7bfa4

Having two families only scratches the surface.



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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
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Old Judge : 1/3 of millennials still believe the world is flat !!!!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorn.../#50a51f327ec6
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- Wade Boggs
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Bugs Raymond
Germany Scaheffer
Rube Waddell
Hal Chase
Larry McLean

What can I say? Flakiness intrigues me.
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Clarkson
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.
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1. Urban Shocker
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Old Judge : 1/3 of millennials still believe the world is flat !!!!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorn.../#50a51f327ec6
I blame youtube. I have a good friend that decides to believe some fool on youtube over true scientists. It honestly makes me sad.

My list of 5 most fascinating players:
1. Moe Berg
2. Hal Chase
3. Jackie Robinson
4. Ted Williams
5. Babe Ruth
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Old 05-21-2018, 07:11 AM
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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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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.
Ted Williams would based on his service in both WWII and Korea.
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Babe Ruth
Satchell Paige
Ed Delahanty
Rube Waddell
Jackie Robinson
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I blame youtube. I have a good friend that decides to believe some fool on youtube over true scientists. It honestly makes me sad.
No, they don't believe eye witnesses who have traveled into space and observed that the earth is not flat. Science has known the earth wasn't flat for over 2300 years.
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Ty Cobb
Babe Ruth
Marty Bergen
Rube Waddell
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1. Babe Ruth
2. Joe Jackson
3. Ty Cobb
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1; Jackie
2; The Babe
3: Shoeless Joe
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5: Mark "The Bird" Fidrych
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Oh yeah, Clemente would be an Honorable Mention for me for sure.
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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
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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
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In no particular order . . .
Christy Mathewson, the ultimate All-American boy
Smoky Joe Wood, set the world on fire in 1912
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Bobby Thomson, Giant hero, giant mensch
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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.
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1. Cobb
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1. Jackie Robinson
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3. Jim Thorpe
4. Casey Stengel
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My current Top 5 are:

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Jack Kloza

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Wing Maddox

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Max Manning

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and Lou Gehrig when he was known as Lou Long
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1) Lou Brissie
2) Jack Lucky Lohrke
3) Bert Shepard
4) Ted Williams
5) Steve Dalkowski

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Moose Haas
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