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    Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    I'm bored..and I figured this might be some fun for some people..the rules are pretty simple... One position player per position, one utility infielder (can play any position, will be considered utility), one utility outfielder, one left handed and right handed starter, and for the sake of balance, one closer and a dh (doesn't necessarily have to have ever played dh in mlb)

    C - Josh Gibson
    1B - Stan Musial
    2B - Jackie Robinson
    SS - Honus Wagner
    3B - Brooks Robinson
    RF - Hank Aaron
    CF - Willie Mays
    LF - Ted Williams

    UI - Rogers Hornsby
    UO - Mickey Mantle
    DH - Babe Ruth

    RHP - Bob Gibson
    LHP - Steve Carlton
    Closer - Lee Smith
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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    I'll take a shot:

    C- Johnny Bench
    1B- Stretch McCovey
    2B- Ryne Sandberg
    SS- Ernie Banks
    3B- Mike Schmidt
    LF- Williams (if Bonds were ever somehow proven that he was totally clean for his career (I know, what a joke), he's got to go here, IMO)
    CF- Mays
    RF- Aaron

    DH- Ruth
    UI- Lou Gehrig
    UO- Mantle

    RHP- Cy Young
    LHP- Warren Spahn
    Closer- Rivera (only possible knock would be that he's only been closing 9 years, but during that span he's posted numbers that are un-paralleled by any other reliever during such a span, & he's done it in the more hitter friendly AL)
    Last edited by Salt City Sooner; 10/21/2005 at 11:58 PM.
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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    This looks like fun.


    C - Roy Campanella
    1B - Lou Gehrig
    2B - Joe Morgan
    SS - Honus Wagner
    3B - Mike Schmidt
    RF - Babe Ruth
    CF - Mickey Mantle
    LF - Barry Bonds

    UI - Dave Concepcion
    UO - Willie Mays
    DH - Hank Aaron

    RHP - Bob Gibson
    LHP - Sandy Koufax
    Closer - Mariano Rivera
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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    where's ty cobb. lifetime .367.

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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    I thought about Cobb for a while just for the sake of having a leadoff hitter in the lineup, but in the end, putting Cobb in meant taking Mays out & that just AIN'T gonna happen. The closest switch for me was my UO, as I had a heck of a time taking the Mick over Frank Robinson. Maybe their hometowns had something to do with it......
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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    Quote Originally Posted by soonerjoker
    where's ty cobb. lifetime .367.


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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    Quote Originally Posted by Salt City Sooner
    I thought about Cobb for a while just for the sake of having a leadoff hitter in the lineup, but in the end, putting Cobb in meant taking Mays out & that just AIN'T gonna happen. The closest switch for me was my UO, as I had a heck of a time taking the Mick over Frank Robinson. Maybe their hometowns had something to do with it......
    that's pretty much why I ended up putting Jackie Robinson on the team...he fills the role of leadoff hitter for this team. I also for a short time struggled with whether or not to go with Josh Gibson, or Roy Campanella for the catcher...ended up going with Gibson because of what he was capable of doing before he passed away too young.
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    OUThunder; good point

    i like Campy, partially because i'm a fan of Dodgers. he started playing pro ball
    when he was 16, but due to segregation,not in majoer until he was 26.
    2 time mvp, was great hitter & catcher. had wreck, & didn't get to play in LA.

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    i can't pick a single team. way too many super star players.

    i'm old, so i tend to like the older players.

    couldn't leave off .367 hitter, all time best.

    check me on this, rogers hornsby averaged .400 for 3 or 4 years.

    couldn't leave him off.

    aaron has to be included, for 2 stats, 755 homers & over 3000 hits that
    weren't homers.

    i'd rather have stan the man than pete rose. running to first on a BB
    didn't accomplish anything.

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    "running to first on a BB didn't accomplish anything."
    Uh, you do know that Musial walked more times than Rose while playing 2 less years than Pete did.... The biggest reason I left Rose off my team is that he was moved around on the field so much (he played at least 600 games at 1B, 2B, 3B, & in the OF) that it was hard for me to call him the best at any one position. Make no mistake though, as big of a liar as he was regarding the scandal, the guy DID have more hits than anyone who ever played the game, & I'd find no fault with anyone who would put him on their team.
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    i was talking about "false hustle".

    musial's numbers were hurt by WW2.

    if you hang around long enough, you end up with the most hits.

    compare his batting average(rose) with cobb's average. or stan the man.

    if i remember right, musial started out as a pitcher (not in majors) &
    then became right-fielder. probably due to having arm of a pitcher.
    he only played !b late in his career.

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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    I'll give this a try:

    C- Roy Campanella (close one over Johnny Bench)
    1B- Lou Gehrig
    2B- Ryne Sandberg
    SS- Ernie Banks
    3B- Mike Schmidt
    RF- Roberto Clemente
    CF- Willie Mays
    LF- Hank Aaron

    UI- Pete Rose
    UO- Mickey Mantle
    DH- Babe Ruth

    RHP- Bob Gibson
    LHP- Sandy Koufax
    Closer- Dennis Eckersley

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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    C- Johnny Bench
    1B- Lou Gehrig
    2B- Pete Rose
    SS- Ernie Banks
    3B- Mike Schmidt
    RF- Joe Dimaggio
    CF- Willie Mays
    LF- Ted Williams

    UI-Honus Wagner
    UO- Mickey Mantle
    DH- Babe Ruth

    RHP- Roger Clemens
    LHP- Sandy Koufax
    Closer- Mariano Rivera

    Perhaps Ripken as the UI

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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    how bout that dodgers guy that saved 80 in a row, for relief.

    where's ty cobb, rogers hornsby & tris speaker ??

    why do some folks have shoeless joe jackson ???

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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    Quote Originally Posted by soonerjoker
    how bout that dodgers guy that saved 80 in a row, for relief.

    where's ty cobb, rogers hornsby & tris speaker ??

    why do some folks have shoeless joe jackson ???
    I am a huge Dodgers fan, but I don't think Eric Gagne deserves to be mentioned among the greatest, at least not yet. He has only been a closer for 3 or 4 seasons.

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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    Quote Originally Posted by soonerjoker
    how bout that dodgers guy that saved 80 in a row, for relief.

    where's ty cobb, rogers hornsby & tris speaker ??

    why do some folks have shoeless joe jackson ???
    I'd say the lifetime ban hurts Joe's chances...when you consider he really didn't play for very long before the ban, it'd be like putting A-Rod on the team at this point in his career (he'll likely be there at some point in the future.)
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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    C - Johnny Bench
    1B - Jimmie Foxx
    2B - Jackie Robinson
    SS - Honus Wagner
    3B - George Brett
    RF - Hank Aaron
    CF - Willie Mays
    LF - Ted Williams

    UI - Rogers Hornsby
    UO - Mickey Mantle (edging out Ty Cobb by a nose)
    DH - Babe Ruth

    RHP - Nolan Ryan
    LHP - Whitey Ford
    Closer - Mariano Rivera
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    Re: Greatest All Time Baseball Team

    think i'd take gehrig over old double x.

    need @ least 3 different teams, for different time periods. maybe 4 or 5.

    nobodies numbers compare to those of Ruth, or Cobb unless you go
    by home runs only.

    i don't think you could go wrong with an outfied of aaron, mays & frank
    robinson.

    what about walter johnson for rhp ??? won 411 games, with a team that was,
    for the most part, BAD.

    what about warren spahn ?? (not necessarily my choice) all time winningest
    lhp, but due to ww2, didn't win a game till he was 25. without war,
    would have won at least 400.

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