My All-Time Baseball Team For Dawg0126’s Contest
This was not an easy thing to do. There are sooo many players that could have fit in just as easily as the one I have in there. Here are the players, along with the reasons I chose them:
Sandy Koufax: The best pitcher of all time in my opinion. No one had a lower ERA at any time from 1961-1966. His career was cut short due to a bum elbow.
Cy Young: All-time leader in wins and has the award for best pitcher named after him. Nuff said.
Bob Gibson: Dominance in 1964 World Series was the reason Major League baseball lowered the mound.
Satchel Paige: Amazing in the Negro Leagues and even pitched a major league game at age 59.
Tom Seaver: Awesome career with the Mets included 300 wins, a World Series title, and 3 Cy Youngs.
Johnny Bench: Was the catcher that powered the Big Red Machine, the best team of the 70’s. Won 2 World Series, 2 MVPs and 10 Gold Gloves.
Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse batted cleanup for the amazing Yanks of the 20’s and 30’s. Won 2 MVPs and was a 7-time All-star. Also hit for an amazing .340 career batting average.
Pete Rose: All time leader in hits with over 4,000.
Mike Schmidt: Great thirdbaseman won 3 MVP awards. 12- time all-star and 10 gold gloves.
Cal Ripken, Jr: Had 400+ Homeruns, 3,000+ hits, 2 MVP awards, and a World Series ring.
Ted Williams: Probably the best natural hitter of all time, the last one to hit .400 in a season.
Willie Mays: Member of the 3,000 hit/600 homerun club and an awesome defender, too.
Roberto Clemente: Able to compile 3,000 hits and a World Series in a career shortened by a tragic plane crash.
Babe Ruth: No team is complete without the Bambino, who hit 714 homeruns and was another big part of the amazing Yankees of the 1920’s and 30’s.
Dennis Eckersley: Amazing reliever from Oakland won an MVP and made 6 All-star appearances.
“Goose” Gossage: Made 9 All-star appearances and is the Yankees career leader in ERA and hits allowed/9IP
Mariano Rivera: The person you think about when you think of closers. Truly a great pitcher and a future Hall Of Famer.
Song used: “Signs” by Creed
ANYONE WHO WANTS TO ARGUE ABOUT NOLAN RYAN PLEASE READ: A good chunk of my comments were coming from the logic that I “forgot” to put Ryan as a pitcher.
Yes, he is the all-time leader in strikeouts, but he had almost as many walks as he did strikeouts.
Yes, he had his number retired by 3 different teams, but that proves nothing except that he was on a lot of teams.
And what I think is the biggest thing is that you may say he is the best pitcher of 3 decades, but how come he NEVER, in his 26 year career, won a Cy Young award?
Now, please continue to bash away on my comments, but I think I’ve made my point.
Duration : 0:2:7
Categories: Baseball Teams Tags: All, Baseball, bench, best, clemente, eckersley, gehrig, gibson, gossage, koufax, mays, of, Paige, ripken, rivera, rose, Ruth, schmidt, Seaver, Time, Williams
The Baseball Bunch OZZIE SMITH Fielding, Part 1
Aired in 1983 (Season 3, Episode 3) and one of the most popular and informative episodes of this show’s great series of instructional baseball, St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith teaches the bunch the fundamentals of playing the position.
Duration : 0:6:58
Categories: Baseball Tags: Baseball, bench, bunch, Chicken, fundamentals, instruction, Johnny, Ozzie, shortstop, smith, The
Hall of Fame Baseball: Diamondbacks vs Brewers 04/20/09
Arizona Diamondbacks vs Milawakee Brewers @ Miller Park
diamondbacks
On the mound: Doris Sams
Lineup
Sophie Kurys 2B
Betty Foss 3B
Joane Weaver LF
Betsy Jochum RF
Audrey Wagner CF
Pepper Paire C
Doris Satterfield DH
Dottie Kamenshek 1B
Dottie Schroeder SS
Also Appeared in the game: Tony Stone 2B, Alta Weis RP
Brewers:
on the mound: Jim Slaton
lineup:
Paul Molitor 2B
Robin Yount SS
Jeremy Burnitz DH
Greg Vaughn RF
Gorman Thomas CF
Ted Simmons C
Cecil Cooper 1B
Don Money 3B
Geoff Jenkins LF
Also Appeared in the game: Dan Plesac RP, Mike Fetters RP
NL scores 04/20/09
ATL 2 vs CIN 1
Kid Nichols W(3-0) 9.0 IP, 1 ER, 6 SO
Bucky Walters L(1-1) 8.1 IP, 2 ER, 7 SO
Clay Carrol 0.2 IP, 0 ER, 0 SO
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MON 0 vs NYM 5
Bryn Smith L (0-3) 6.0 IP, 4 ER, 5 SO
Jeff Reardon 2.0 IP, 1 ER, 2 SO
Ron Darling W (3-0) 9.0 IP, 0 ER, 8 SO
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FLA 15 vs PHI 1
Dick Redding W(2-0) 7.1 IP, 1 ER, 6 SO
Jesse Winters 1.2 IP, 0 ER, 1 SO
Robin Roberts L(0-3) 2.2 IP, 5 ER, 2 SO
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CHC 3 vs PIT 4
Fergie Jenkins L(1-2) 5.0 IP, 4 ER, 6 SO
Lee Smith 3.0 IP, 0 ER, 2 SO
Pud Galvin W (2-1) 8.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 SO
Mike Williams 1.0 IP, 0 ER, 0 SO
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STL 11 vs HOU 3
Bob Caruthers W (2-1) 6.2 IP, 3 ER, 6 SO
Jason Isringhausen 3.1 IP, 0 ER, 0 SO
Jose Lima L(0-3) 3.1 IP, 8 ER, 4 SO
Dave Smith 3.2 IP, 0 ER, 1 SO
Mike Scott 1.1 IP, 3 ER, 0 SO
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LA 6 vs COL 4
Don Sutton 5.2 IP, 4 ER, 2 SO
Eric Gagne 1.0 IP, 0 ER, 1 SO SV(4)
Mark Mulder 7.0 IP, 4 ER, 10 SO
Matt Morris L (0-1) 2.0 IP, 2 ER, 2 SO
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SD 3 vs SF 4
Eric Show 5.1 IP, 3 ER, 3 SO
Rich Rodriguez L(0-2) 3.2 IP, 1 ER, 5 SO
Rube Marquard 7.1 IP, 2 ER, 6 SO
Duration : 0:11:0
