Random Not Important Baseball Poll

[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.

[bmattioli]

Mickey Mantle or Pete Rose..

[Andrew1975]

Ted Williams - baseball AND fishing!

[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: