Mon Dec 12, 2022 12:28 pm
Extending the Yankee CF story a bit further, the Yankees had HOF centerfielders from 1924-1968, with Combs to Dimaggio to Mantle. That's 45 years!
As mentioned above, Red Sox went even further with Ted Williams, HOFers Yaz and Rice in LF from 1939 to 1989. That's a half-century!
There's also Stan Musial and Lou Brock for the Cardinals. Musial retired in 1963 and Brock joined the Cards via a trade about 1/3 of the way into the 1964 season. And the Cards won the world series. If we count that, the Cards had a HOFer in LF continuously from 1941 to 1979. That's 39 years.
And let's not forget Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra. The Yankees had a HOF catcher from 1928 to 1963.
There are probably other cases of one HOFer following another at the same position over a very long span of time. The fact that the Red Sox in LF and the Yankees in CF had a sequence of THREE HOFers at the same position over a period of 45 or 50 years seems to me truly amazing.