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Favorite Baseball Players of All Time

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NoStateofMind

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Just was wondering who you guys like as your favorites of all time.

Mine:

Hitter: Tony Gwynn - Hits like nobody's business

Pitcher: Greg Maddux - During his years with the Braves, no one was better

Honorable Mention: Will Clark - Unforgettable swing
 
Dale Murphy

Jon Smoltz

Don Mattingly (tried to emulate him growing up playing 1st base)
 
Rafael Palmeiro

Went to college with him. Good guy. Too bad he got caught and ruined his rep. Palmeiro and the rest of the college team would drink cold beverages at the bar where I was a bartender. Will Clark was a prick and didn't tip shit even after he made it to the big league. Jeff Brantley was also on that college team and was a bar patron.

 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter
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Loooooong overrated.

Now one of the WORST FIELDING SHORTSTOPS in ALL of baseball.

Just saying. 😛
 
Best overall without serious doubt: Willie Mays.

Distinctly honorable mention to: Babe Ruth and and the nearly incomparable and incandescent Roberto Clemente.

Best Pitcher: Sandy Koufax.

Best Defensive player: Ozzie Smith.
 
I was always a Nolan Ryan fan. I've got several of his "Fireball" cards and some kind of gold-plated card I got for Christmas way way back.
 
Strawberry.

For the awesomeness of his skills, and the utter disaster/incurable train-wreck of his personal life. What a guy.

 
Originally posted by: Poulsonator
Ted Williams
Wade Boggs
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Oh, yes, Ted Williams.
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The last man in the long history of baseball ot hit .400 for an entire season and perhaps the best pure hitter, also with power, ever!

Please do not forget that Mr. George Herman Ruth's many prodigious home runs may obscure his elite hitter's eye -- a .342 average over 22 years!

But WAIT,there's more! He also held the all-time record for most consecutive scoreless innings pitched in the World Series -- 29 and 2/3 innings freaking innings! -- before Whitey Ford broke his record as a Yankee some 40 years later.

Imagine THAT! :shocked:

Babe Ruth won 94 of the 148 games he ever started, with a 2.28 ERA, before he turned his full attention to hitting and the outfield. Please give it up for the Babe. :heart:

Still, the best player I ever saw play was Mr. Willie "Say Hey" Mays. Like I imagine Tiger Woods is in golf or Michael Jordan was in b-ball, he was a man amongst men -- universally recognized by the players and coaches and managers who played during his time as the best of the best, no freaking question.
 
Hitter - Ted Williams, greatest hitter ever.
Pitcher - I gotta go with Pedro. I saw him during '99, probably the most dominant season by a MLB pitcher in history.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I was always a Nolan Ryan fan. I've got several of his "Fireball" cards and some kind of gold-plated card I got for Christmas way way back.
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QFT

Nolan Ryan and Ozzie Smith for me, I lived in St Louis for a few years when I was young
 
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