The All Time Best Baseball Players In a BRAWL team

[prewarsports]

Going back a ways, I would vote for Charlie Schmidt Detroit Catcher around the turn of the century. He used to entertain people by pounding nails into boards with his mangled and scarred fists and he also used to spar with Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. If you had asked this question 100 years ago EVERY response would have been Schmidt hands down. He also beat the crap out of Ty Cobb once too! He was by far the toughest man to play before WW1.

Rhys Yeakley

[mschwade]

I won't go back very far... I'll take Kyle Farnsworth's crazy a$$ on the mound for me any day of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mt0_0k40t4

[Exhibitman]

I'd also take any of the WWII vets who were decorated in battle. Can't beat a war hero for potentially standing ground and throwing down in a brawl.

[Lordstan]

How about Ernie Lombardi for catcher?

While I never heard of him in a fight, I can only imagine that a guy with hands this size would be an asset in a fight!

Plus he was so strong that he once broke 3 fingers of Larry French's glove hand with a line drive.

He may not have been able to catch you, but I think once he got a hand on you it was probably over.

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

How about Ernie Lombardi for catcher?

While I never heard of him in a fight, I can only imagine that a guy with hands this size would be an asset in a fight!

Plus he was so strong that he once broke 3 fingers of Larry French's glove hand with a line drive.

He may not have been able to catch you, but I think once he got a hand on you it was probably over.

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Also, ask Reggie about Graig Nettles...

[earlywynnfan]

Sig Jakucki!

Ken

[travrosty]

i would probably say jim thorpe, because who is gonna want to take him on?

[btcarfagno]

Jimmie Foxx and Frank Howard. There is something to be said for having the ability to rip a mans head clean off his shoulders...whether or not that option ever gets exercised.

Tom C

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by mschwade

I won't go back very far... I'll take Kyle Farnsworth's crazy a$$ on the mound for me any day of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mt0_0k40t4

Good one! Love the youtube of Farnsworth's fight. Yikes!

[steve B]

For actual brawling I see a bunch of good choices here.

I'd pick Jim Rice. One brawl I saw he wasn't fighting, but was just tapping shoulders and pointing to the dugout. Nobody swung, they just left.

I also heard a story about Boog Powell ending a likely bar brawl by stuffing a local connected hood into an ice cooler headfirst. Yeah, I might want him too

That Schmidt fellow sounds both damn tough and a bit crazy, a fine combination.

Steve B

[MilBraves]

Love the Logan pick. Here is just one of many Logan fight stories.

"We were at this restaurant in New York called Scopas," Logan recalled. "I'm sitting at the bar and here comes Bickford(Bickford was Logan's team mate). We had lost the game because Roy Campenella hit a line drive at me that knuckled and I couldn't handle it. The Dodgers scored after that.
"Bickford said to me, `If I was pitching and you lost that line drive, I'd kick you in the butt.' I ignored it and he said, `Hey, didn't you hear what I said to you?' I said, `Who was pitching?', trying to antagonize him a little bit. He said, `It was Jim Wilson.' It wasn't Wilson when the ball was hit. It was Ernie Johnson. Anyway, I pulled a $100 bill from a secret compartment in my wallet and laid it on the bar.
"We made a bet and asked the bartender to call a wire service and find out who was pitching at the time (it was the fifth inning). They called back and said it was Johnson. I gave back his $100, but now he's calling me names like gutless, yellow belly and words that I won't repeat here. He said I didn't have the guts to take him outside. He swung at me and then I let him have it. I broke one of his teeth, cut his lip, and bent his nose a little bit. The next day I took the team bus, but Bickford was so bruised he didn't make it."

[MilBraves]

Here is a good Logan/Mathews story

The reputations of Logan and Mathews had spread to the point where the late Joe Louis had heard of their fistic exploits.
"After winning the World Series in 1957, I met Joe in Las Vegas, where he was a host at Caesar's Palace. He told me, `I've done a lot of reading about you. I hear you and Mathews like to fight. I could beat you two guys one on one, but if you two ganged up on me, I wouldn't stand a chance.