Baseball Mount Rushmore

[39special]

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Bowa
Cash
Luzinski
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Nice list Jim.Maybe Maddox could sneak in there somewhere.

[perezfan]

Not much common ground, but think we all agree.... We need a bigger mountain (4 heads is not enough!)

My real one would probably be...

Ruth
Cobb
Aaron
Mays

All outfielders, I know... but those 4 feel the most legendary to me


Mt. Rushmore for players who's image/achievements transcend baseball....

Gehrig
Robinson
Clemente
Gwynn

All Pitchers Mt. Rushmore...

Johnson
Mathewson
Young
Koufax

Impossible to pick that #4 spot.... could easily be talked into Ryan, Spahn, Grove, Alexander, Feller, Paige, Walsh, Gibson and others.


Mt. Rushmore of Infamy....

Jackson
Rose
McGwire
Bonds

[RichardSimon]

Mays
Ruth
Cobb
Williams

[glchen]

Ruth
Cobb
Gehrig
Williams

[William Farrell]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

Mays
Ruth
Cobb
Williams

+1

[chaddurbin]

i'm perfectly fine with the 1st hof class representing mt rushmore+1...ruth, cobb, wajo, matty, wagner. i'm biased toward the deadball era, but names like mays or aaron doesn't resonate the same as cobb or wagner when you think of the baseball game and its history.

[William Farrell]

Originally Posted by chaddurbin

i'm perfectly fine with the 1st hof class representing mt rushmore+1...ruth, cobb, wajo, matty, wagner. i'm biased toward the deadball era, but names like mays or aaron doesn't resonate the same as cobb or wagner when you think of the baseball game and its history.

You rarely see Hornsby mentioned, yet he arguably had the greatest 5 year string of seasons of any player.

From 1921 through 1925, his season cumulative average almost .403 (including the modern record .424 season, and batting over .400 three times during that 5 year span), hitting almost 150 homers (average = 30 per year), 600 RBIs (average = 125 per years), and slugging about .700!

[William Farrell]

Double posted, sorry. PC glitch.

[Scott Garner]

I think that all of you that chose Babe Ruth, Cobb, Williams and Mays got it right, FWIW, but....

Being a pitcher oriented collector I have to agree with perezfan Mark on selecting an all-pitcher Mt. Rushmore:

All Pitchers Mt. Rushmore...

Johnson
Mathewson
Young
Koufax

Impossible to pick that #4 spot.... could easily be talked into Ryan, Spahn, Grove, Alexander, Feller, Paige, Walsh, Gibson and others.

BTW, any pitcher Mt. Rushmore that didn't include Walter Johnson would be a joke, IMHO. I could easily substitute Grove or Alexander in position # 4. I might also place Greg Maddox in the list of alternate # 4's. Not early vintage, but his pitching career was certainly one for the ages...

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by chaddurbin

names like mays or aaron doesn't resonate the same as cobb or wagner when you think of the baseball game and its history.

To me, it's the exact opposite.

Mays
B. Bonds
Williams
Ruth, grudgingly

[71buc]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

To me, it's the exact opposite.

Mays
B. Bonds
Williams
Ruth, grudgingly

+1 Unless you prefer slow guys who wear funny little mitts, play only day games, don't travel coast to coast and play under Jim Crow rules. Can you imagine what Mays and Aaron would have done to that level of competition? Give me Rickey Henderson over Ty Cobb and his ilk any day of the week. Baseball collecting is the only universe where people seem to believe that human performance was better 100 years ago.