100 best baseball players

i also believe Larry MIze the Masters Champion has Johnny Mize in his family tree

Hmm, wonder where Joel Pineiro, Ryne Duren, Kirk Reuter, and Dale Murray will fall on this list.;-/

maybe we can get him to do a one year wonder top 100. give us some new cards

great article on Arky Vaughan in the athletic today. he was the minor league roommate of Willard Herschberger, sadly the only ball player to commit suicide during the season. Vaughan tragically died when he went back into a freezing lake to try to rescue his fishing mate from their capsized boat. both submerged about 10 yards from shore and drowned. he was also shunned by the Hall of Fame writers, even though he put up some of the best stats ever for a Shortstop. RIP Mr. Vaughan. you deserved so much more and a lot better treatment from your contemporaries

*The Baseball 100 by POSITION* (through no. 9-Stan Musial) - Joe Posnanski

RHSP (23)
99-Mike Mussina
92-Bullet Rogan
90-Max Scherzer
88-Curt Schilling
83-Phil Niekro
82-Kid Nichols
81-Ferguson Jenkins
75-Justin Verlander
72-Robin Roberts
71-Bert Blyleven
68-Gaylord Perry
62-Smokey Joe Williams
55-Bob Feller
50-Nolan Ryan
45-Bob Gibson
41-Tom Seaver
37-Pedro Martínez
36-Christy Mathewson
34-Cy Young
31-Greg Maddux
26-Grover Cleveland “Pete” Alexander
13-Roger Clemens
10-Satchel Paige

LHSP (6)
78-Clayton Kershaw
70-Sandy Koufax
63-Steve Carlton
49-Warren Spahn
28-Randy Johnson
22-Lefty Grove

RHRP (1)
91-Mariano Rivera

CATCHER (7)
94-Roy Campanella
89-Mike Piazza
86-Gary Carter
80-Carlton Fisk
43-Yogi Berra
30-Johnny Bench
15-Josh Gibson

FIRST BASE (11)
85-Sadaharu Oh
77-Miguel Cabrera
76-Willie McCovey
67-Hank Greenburg
64-Johnny Mize
60-Pete Rose
58-Jeff Bagwell
53-Buck Leonard
33-Jimmie Foxx
23-Albert Pujols
14-Lou Gehrig

SECOND BASE (8)
97-Roberto Alomar
87-Charlie Gehringer
57-Rod Carew
42-Jackie Robinson
39-Nap Lajoie
29-Eddie Collins
21-Joe Morgan
17-Rogers Hornsby

THIRD BASE (7)
73-Brooks Robinson
54-Chipper Jones
52-Adrián Beltré
47-Wade Boggs
46-Eddie Matthews
35-George Brett
20-Mike Schmidt

SHORTSTOP (9)
93-Ozzie Smith
79-Derek Jeter
66-Robin Yount
65-Ernie Banks
61-Arky Vaughan
44-Cal Ripken Jr.
25-Pop Lloyd
16-Alex Rodriguez
12-Honus Wagner

LEFTFIELD (4)
69-Monte Irvin
38-Carl Yastrzemski
24-Rickey Henderson
9-Stan Musial

CENTERFIELD (7)
98-Carlos Beltran
84-Cool Papa Bell
56-Joe DiMaggio
48-Ken Griffey Jr.
27-Mike Trout
18-Tris Speaker
11-Mickey Mantle

RIGHTFIELD (8)
100-Ichiro Suzuki
96-Larry Walker
95-Tony Gwynn
59-Reggie Jackson
51-Al Kaline
40-Roberto Clemente
32-Mel Ott
20-Frank Robinson

DH (1)
74-Frank Thomas

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The top eight (in some order) will probably be: Ruth, Mays, Bonds, Aaron, Cobb, Williams, Charleston, W Johnson

These kinds of lists drive me nuts. But, that's my problem.

It is a great conversation piece and reading about baseball (player) history is a favorite pastime of mine.

So, who are the outliers? Mostly players from a long time ago.

How about:

Old Hoss Radbourn
The very amazing Al Spaulding (200 wins in five seasons)
Billy Hamilton
Ed Delahanty (How do you leave Ed off the list?)
Shoeless
Luke Appling (I saw him hit a HR in an Old-timers game at 75 years old - he was visibly crying crossing home plate)
Wahoo Sam
IRod
Brouthers
Monty Ward
Cap Anson

Delahanty was involved in the first Electronic Sign Stealing Scandal in 1899. the next year his Average dropped by almost a 100 points

Delahanty was involved in the first Electronic Sign Stealing Scandal in 1899. the next year his Average dropped by almost a 100 points

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