Random Not Important Baseball Poll

[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!

[Piratedogcardshows]

Cobb is a popular choice and mine as well!

[BRoberts]

Tommy Lasorda

[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.

[UKCardGuy]

What a tough choice to pick just one...

I think I'd have to go for Hank Greenberg or Yogi Berra.

Like Lou Gerhig, Hank was a genuinely nice guy...but I suspect he'd be a bit more chatty.
Berra...well..he's Yogi Berra.

[earlywynnfan]

I'd love to sit with anyone mentioned so far, but my choices would either be Satchel for the incredible stories or Connie Mack, who pretty much saw all of baseball's history pre-integration.

[Snapolit1]

Funny story that I just thought of . . .

Soon after moving to the same town in NJ that Yogi raised his family in, there was a local educational charity in town having an auction night where one of the top items was watch a world series game with Yogi at his museum with 10 friends. Catered. At the time (20 years ago?) I though the auction got stupid with a winning bid of like $1800.

I still have deep bruise for kicking myself in the ass the last 2 decades. My dad and father in law would have gotten such an immense kick out of that. Big regret I didn't pounce on that.

[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!

[esd10]

Henry chadwick or Harry Wright

[Pack The Ripper]

I'd like to be a fly on the wall in the room where Walter Johnson and Nolan Ryan meet.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by 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!

Me too! I was just thinking of Vin this morning. We've had a few days of 85 degree weather here in LA and it feels like the start of baseball.

"Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good afternoon to you, wherever you may be."

Here's Vin with my nephew Sam, in the Dodgers press box:

[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

[Fred]

der boss - Chris Von der Ahe