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Willie Mays. I have to go with someone I saw play a lot. Those others were great but I only read about them after their careers. I was going to go with Ed Kranepool but I didn't think anyone knew who he was.
Mr. Camper wrote: Willie Mays. I have to go with someone I saw play a lot. Those others were great but I only read about them after their careers. I was going to go with Ed Kranepool but I didn't think anyone knew who he was.
OMG, Ed Kranepool???? You sure you don't want to add Marvelous Marv Throneberry to the list as well?????????
Of course, Ed Kranepool is not a bad choice. He's the only guy I ever heard of who got switched from 1st base to right field late in one game, and instead of switching gloves, used his first base mitt in the outfield. Kind of went right along with the rest of the early Met years.
My vote goes to Ted Williams. Outstanding career, and who knows what he may have accomplished had he not spent so many years in the service during both WW II and the Korean War.
Oh, for info and a little trivia. Ted Williams flew with Marines in Korea. His wingman was an ordinary fellow -who later on achieved greatness-some guy named John Glenn.
Oh, and one more. Williams was actually a tall fellow, who refused to bail out of his damaged jet over Korea, instead limping it home for a crash landing at his home airbase. He didn't want to eject, because his knees would have caught the edge of the cockpit going out, and ruined his baseball career.
I read an article not to long ago that stated that Honus Wagner was the greatest baseball player of all time and was one of the first 5 players inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame, if I can find it I will post it for others to read.
Born-February 24,1874/Died-December 06,1955
Position-Shortstop.
Batted-Right/Threw-Right
Teams-Louisville Colonels & Pittsburgh Pirates
Here are some of his stats Hit.344 his first year(1897)
Hit over 300 for 17 seasons with lifetime average of 329
Led the league in stolen bases on 6 occasions with a total career of 722 steals. He retired from Pro Baseball with more hits,runs,RBIs,Doubles,Triples,Games and steals them any other National League Player. Didn't smoke Didn't Drink and he did all the above without using any Drugs or Steroids. The highest price ever paid for a Baseball card was Honus Wagner's or the Flying Dutchman as he was called, and it sold for 2.35 Million Dollars.
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I'm not so sure who I think was the greatest of all time, but here is the best PLAY of all time, made by Rick Monday of the Chicago Cubs (from Wikipedia):
On April 25, 1976, during a game at Dodger Stadium, two protestors, a man and his son, ran into the outfield and tried to set fire to an American flag they had brought with them. Rick Monday, then playing with the Cubs, noticed they had placed the flag on the ground and were fumbling with matches and lighter fluid; he then dashed over and grabbed the flag off the ground to thunderous cheers. He handed the flag to Los Angeles pitcher Doug Rau, after which the ballpark police arrested the two intruders. When he came up to bat in the next half-inning, he got a standing ovation from the crowd and the big message board behind the left-field bleachers in the stadium flashed the message, "RICK MONDAY... YOU MADE A GREAT PLAY..." He later said, "If you're going to burn the flag, don't do it around me. I've been to too many veterans' hospitals and seen too many broken bodies of guys who tried to protect it."
In a later interview, he said he was humbled by the crowd breaking into "God Bless America" as the security guards and head groundskeeper led the scumbags off the field.
Gotta go with Willie Mays. He hit 660 Hrs. Spent 20 years in SF at Candlestick. Willie estimates that Candlestick took anywhere from 5 to 10 homeruns away from him. Thats an extra 100 to 200 home runs, that would put him between 760 and 860. Imagine if he played in a smaller hitters park like in Atlanta.
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