OT - MVP trivia

[barrysloate]

Barry Bonds, Derek Jeter (long shot guess), Mickey Mantle.

[sportsamerica]

Barry Bonds, Mantle and Joe D

[Rich Klein]

Stan Musial at one time was the all-time leading vote getter and probably someone like Rickey Henderson to close out the show

Rich

[scooter729]

Ted Williams, Barry Bonds and Stan Musial

[Robextend]

Bonds, Mays, Musial?

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by scooter729

Ted Williams, Barry Bonds and Stan Musial

We have a winner!

Top three are: Bonds, Musial, and Williams. with Pujols now fourth.

(In Alberts 9 seasons, he has 3 firsts, 3 seconds, 1 third, and 1 fourth. Not a bad way to start a career.)

Edited to add: The other year? 2007? He hit .327, with 32 HRs, 103 RBIs and only finished 9th in the voting.

[ChiefBenderForever]

Can you imagine Bonds doing a couple years in Iraq and then a couple more in Afganistan and then coming back to paly ? I could maybe seeing Pujols doing it, but what Ted Williams did is so amazing it's a shame Bonds is even mentioned with him.

[sportsamerica]

I don't see any of today's superstars doing anything like this.. Most of today's players feel we "Owe" them, not like back in Williams day, in which it was an honor to serve our country.

[ChiefBenderForever]

Originally Posted by sportsamerica

I don't see any of today's superstars doing anything like this.. Most of today's players feel we "Owe" them, not like back in Williams day, in which it was an honor to serve our country.

Not everyone, Pat Tillman walked away from a 3.6 million dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals to join the military and was killed in action in Afganistan as an Army Ranger in 2004, he was only 27.

[cwazzy]

Originally Posted by JohnnyHarmonica

Can you imagine Bonds doing a couple years in Iraq and then a couple more in Afganistan and then coming back to paly ? I could maybe seeing Pujols doing it, but what Ted Williams did is so amazing it's a shame Bonds is even mentioned with him.

Don't forget that Musial served in the military as well, although not nearly as long as Williams did.

[scooter729]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

We have a winner!

Top three are: Bonds, Musial, and Williams. with Pujols now fourth.

(In Alberts 9 seasons, he has 3 firsts, 3 seconds, 1 third, and 1 fourth. Not a bad way to start a career.)

Edited to add: The other year? 2007? He hit .327, with 32 HRs, 103 RBIs and only finished 9th in the voting.

Thanks - I can't wait to see what my prize is!

Ted Williams is probably my favorite player of all time (and this from a 36 year old). My favorite Teddy stat is that he won the Triple Crown TWICE, in '42 and '47, and hit .406 in 1941, and NONE of those times did he win the MVP.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by scooter729

Thanks - I can't wait to see what my prize is!

I'll have it shipped directly from the cryogenics lab in AZ!

[barrysloate]

That Ted Williams had quite a head on his shoulders...although of late it has left his shoulders.