Random Not Important Baseball Poll

[Casey2296]

Post war. Willie Mays or Stan Musial (toss up)
Pre-war: Lou Gehrig
Deadball: Christy Mathewson

Honorable mention: Dock Ellis, any cat that throws a no-no on LSD has to be a lot of fun.

[Bigdaddy]

Mr. Cobbs. I'd bet he would have lots of opinions to share and it would be interesting to sit with him and watch today's players.

[Kevin]

John McGraw or Rafael Santana

[cardsagain74]

Hitting: Tony Gwynn

Pitching: Greg Maddux

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

George Brett

[TUM301]

Babe Ruth, Joe Jackson, Bill Lee.

[riggs336]

Watch a game with: Cobb.
Shoot the breeze with: Jim Bouton

[ajquigs]

Curtis Granderson

[egri]

Talk baseball with: Ted Williams

Talk investing with: Ty Cobb

[Tyruscobb]

Tyrus Raymond Cobb, of course!

[joshuanip]

Originally Posted by egri

Talk baseball with: Ted Williams

Talk investing with: Ty Cobb

Ted Williams was an interesting character. I got a ball signed by him at a card show and he bounced it back to me. Haha. He was right.

[mechanicalman]

Originally Posted by ajquigs

Curtis Granderson

As a Detroit fan, I loved that guy. He genuinely seemed like a great dude.

[sando69]

the one individual that i would most like to watch a game and shoot the breeze with, is a man who never played an inning of professional baseball, but in my opinion would be the most educated, informed, interesting and articulate student of the game.
that person would be vin scully!

[vthobby]

Originally Posted by TUM301

Babe Ruth, Joe Jackson, Bill Lee.

I've never seen Bill Lee listed with Ruth and Shoeless Joe! Awesome!

I've literally met Bill Lee about 4 or 5 times in Vermont, sometimes by accident. He has a farm in Vermont and his nickname "Spaceman" is so appropriate!

I faced him in an over 35 baseball league (struck out). I was maybe 40, he was most likely in his 60's. He faced 9 batters on our team and struck out all 9! ugh!

Another time I faced him in a wiffle ball game for charity (Travis Roy Foundation event). I pitched the whole game against him and he even hit a HR off me. He was barking at me all around the bases.

Bill Lee is a true character and is quite fascinating!

Peace, Mike

[jimmer77]

I would go with Pete Rose, seems like he may have some interesting insights

[GeoPoto]

[QUOTE=vtgmsc;2056736]I've never seen Bill Lee listed with Ruth and Shoeless Joe! Awesome!

I've literally met Bill Lee about 4 or 5 times in Vermont, sometimes by accident. He has a farm in Vermont and his nickname "Spaceman" is so appropriate!

Quick (sorta) Spaceman story: Washington Nationals fan here. In 2012, we went to a weekend road series at Fenway and my wife bought me a 100 Years 1912-2012 of Fenway shirt. Sometime in 2013, I'm wearing the shirt at breakfast in a diner in CA (near SF) and a women approaches our table and asks If I know who Bill Lee is? (I forget exactly how she got to that question, but it was triggered by my shirt.) I said Spaceman Lee? She said: "Yes, I'm his wife. He's playing (in some baseball event) today near here." She then reached in her purse and pulled out a handful of his baseball cards and handed me one like it was a business card. Spaceman was busy elsewhere, so I didn't meet him, just his wife. But I got his card.

[GeoPoto]

Back on Topic: Pete Reiser or Ray Dandridge

[SteveWhite]

Bob Uecker