You mean "The Harmonica Man" Joe Peppitone? (No harmonica after losing!)Joe Pepitone
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You mean "The Harmonica Man" Joe Peppitone? (No harmonica after losing!)Joe Pepitone
Most of the folks on HROT were not born before the 1950's
so it would be a fair starting point to chose your favorite.
My personal favorite is New York Yankee Hall of Famer
Mickey Mantle. He won 7 World Series Rings, won one
Triple Crown, and hit over 500 career home runs. He was
the greatest switch hitter in MLB history.
Who is your favorite MLB player?
Wasn't that Phil Linz?You mean "The Harmonica Man" Joe Peppitone? (No harmonica after losing!)
I thought it was Pepitone.....but I am a Yankee hater....but I know Linz did something....and it was the harmonica! this getting old is tuff....Wasn't that Phil Linz?
There were some guys who could really outfield in NYC back in those days! 3 of the best.....The "Duke"of Flatbush.
And as good as he was, Duke was a distant third.There were some guys who could really outfield in NYC back in those days! 3 of the best.....
Don't tug on Superman's cape.
One of my earliest baseball memories is Willie Mays making the catch on Vic Wertz' drive to center. I was an Indian fan in my youth.....then the next season I was Ted Williams hit a homer in Kansas City, and I became a Sox fan.And as good as he was, Duke was a distant third.
I'm with HallofFame here with Rick Ankiel. Greatest OF arm I've ever seen. Some of these are just silly, especially the throw at the 2:30 mark against the Rockies.
The best "arm talent" I've ever seen. A shame he never wanted to pitch.
Always looked at Mays/Mantle/Aaron vs. Musial/Williams as contemporaries. Mays clearly the best all around. Williams lost most of 5 prime years. Musial lost 1945. He had 425 hits combined on either side of the year he missed. Musial had 200 more doubles, 37 more triples, higher OBP, OPS, Slugging % and 30 points on his batting average. He struck out even less than the " eye " Ted Williams. 22 year careers for both.IMO Willie Mays is hands down the greatest all-around baseball player post WWII. One of the greatest fielders ever, strong arm. very good base runner/stealer, almost 3300 total hits including 660 home runs, career .302 hitter. Mays would have likely been the first player to break Babe Ruth's home run record if he had not been drafted into the Korean War for two years after his NL Rookie of the Year season.
A few players may have arguably been better power hitters, some better hitters for average. one or two better fielders and others better base stealers but no one had the whole package like the say hey kid. Willie Mays could do it all.
Hopefully he never does!One of my earliest baseball memories is Willie Mays making the catch on Vic Wertz' drive to center. I was an Indian fan in my youth.....then the next season I was Ted Williams hit a homer in Kansas City, and I became a Sox fan.
I imagine I have seem May's catch 100 times since...and he has never dropped it once!
Koufax's run from '62 - '66 was off the charts. Of course injury took him out of the game after only 12 years. Gibson never had Koufax's " stuff " but had the will, endurance and in three WS appearances pitched 27 innings in each. Randy Johnson should be in the mix before Verlander. With the DH his ERA would likely be right there with the greatest of all time. The thread should have separate columns for every day players and pitchers.Only one pitcher named?
I'll add two that were better (with all due respect to Verlander):
Bob Gibson
Sandy Koufax
What I respect ore about the old guys (put Warren Spahn in there too) is that they finished what they started. There are more than friends of mine who spent many a late summer night huddled up to the radio listening to Harry and Joe call Gibson vs. Koufax games. Generally they were epics. And once started....they were usually finished by the same 2 pitchers.Koufax's run from '62 - '66 was off the charts. Of course injury took him out of the game after only 12 years. Gibson never had Koufax's " stuff " but had the will, endurance and in three WS appearances pitched 27 innings in each. Randy Johnson should be in the mix before Verlander. With the DH his ERA would likely be right there with the greatest of all time. The thread should have separate columns for every day players and pitchers.
What I respect ore about the old guys (put Warren Spahn in there too) is that they finished what they started. There are more than friends of mine who spent many a late summer night huddled up to the radio listening to Harry and Joe call Gibson vs. Koufax games. Generally they were epics. And once started....they were usually finished by the same 2 pitchers.
Koufax's run from '62 - '66 was off the charts. Of course injury took him out of the game after only 12 years. Gibson never had Koufax's " stuff " but had the will, endurance and in three WS appearances pitched 27 innings in each. Randy Johnson should be in the mix before Verlander. With the DH his ERA would likely be right there with the greatest of all time. The thread should have separate columns for every day players and pitchers.
I have a lot of them but I am going to stick to guys I actually watched. Bucky Dent, Willie Randolph, Ron Guidry, Sparky Lyle, Don Mattingly, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, Dave Winfield, Edgar Martinez, Miggy Cabrera, Pedro Martinez, Dwight Evans, Dale Murphy, Craig Biggio, George Brett, Frank White, Thurman Munson, Willie Wilson, Robin Yount, Justin Verlander. And of course Derek Jeter.Most of the folks on HROT were not born before the 1950's
so it would be a fair starting point to chose your favorite.
My personal favorite is New York Yankee Hall of Famer
Mickey Mantle. He won 7 World Series Rings, won one
Triple Crown, and hit over 500 career home runs. He was
the greatest switch hitter in MLB history.
Who is your favorite MLB player?