Your baseball Mount Rushmore
kane
Senior Member
Pick the four guys that best represent your favorite team. Since I'm a Marlins fan and a Reds fan, I'll do both.
Marlins) Jeff Conine, Mike Lowell, Josh Beckett, Giancarlo Stanton
Reds) Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Barry Larkin, Joe Morgan
The Reds were much tougher, a lot of worthy candidates I left off
Marlins) Jeff Conine, Mike Lowell, Josh Beckett, Giancarlo Stanton
Reds) Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Barry Larkin, Joe Morgan
The Reds were much tougher, a lot of worthy candidates I left off
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As a Phils guy Id have to go....
Schmidt...Klein....Carlton.....Robin Roberts. Could very easily have Bunning or Ashburn in last spot.
Ill add my 4 greatest living players for kicks.....
Mays.....Koufax....Bonds...Aaron
Koufax- Many lefthanded hitters have called in sick when he was scheduled.
Bob Gibson- Mean SOB that would knock you down if you hit a loud foul.
Mariano Rivera- Game over. Luis Gonzalez benefitted from a drawn in infield.
Mickey Mantle (Nothing more to say)
Yogi Berra (Talk Bench all you want, Berra 3x MVP plus countless awards the best catcher ever)
Mariano Rivera (Mr. Sand Man Enough said)
Whitney Ford (Money)
Another without any Yankees
Bob Gibson (People feared getting into the box. A bad man on the mound)
Sandy Koufax (Tell me when you find a better pitcher)
Willie Mays (Maybe the best 5 tool player the game will ever see)
Ted Williams (Possibly the best hitter ever)
PETE ROSE
I know it's impossible to only pick four Yankees, but the Babe would have to be on my Yankee Rushmore
Just Breaking balls. My answer would be and I didn't put him on my mount rushmore because there was room for only four .
FRANK ROBINSON the only player to win the MVP in both leagues.
Yes your right and there's others (Lou Gehrig) but I tried to stick to the ones that I actually seen play. Great Topic kane, really that was fun and will continue to be. Doesn't always have to pretain to gambling.
Meant to say Lew Burdette, old age!
No other!!
Sure he benefited from the drawn in infield, but he loaded the bases in the first place. Couldn't get an aging Mark Grace out, then makes a wild throw to 2nd on the bunt, then gives up another hit to Womack, then hits Craig Counsel who was 2 for 24 at the plate coming into that at bat. The only out he got in the inning was the sacrifice bunt force out at third. Funny thing is on that, Brosious had an easy double play if he threw it to first.
Mariano is the greatest closer ever, but between that, and not getting the lower half of the Red Sox order out in the 9th in game 4 of 2004 ALCS, he cost the Yankees 2 more World Series because he couldn't get 3 outs in the 9th on both occasions.
You're tough jammer. LOL
I remember a day game in Arlington he coughed up for me when giving up a 2run HR to Juan Gonzalez. I got over it.:laugh:
Braves:
Aaron, Matthews, Spahn and (wait for it) Murph
If it's only Braves that I watched (was alive for):
Murph, Maddux, Glavine, Chipper (apologies to Smoltz, '91 playoff Steve Avery, Fred McGriff, Ron Gant, David Justice, Bob Horner -for the 4HR game that delighted me as a kid- & Francisco Cabrera.
My Anti-Rushmore:
Rafael Ramirez, Bruce Benedict, Pascual Perez, BJ Upton - apologies to Dan Uggla, John Rocker, Ken Oberkfell, Glenn Hubbard, Jerry Royster (basically every non-Murph/Horner/Claudell Washington Brave from 1982-1989 for providing such shitty support for Murph)
Baba, Would Pascual Perez be on your list if he had a GPS device?
No Jeter? I think he belongs.
Babe Ruth (his numbers vs others of his era were sick--still the greatest player ever)
Lou Gehrig (the Iron Horse)
Mickey Mantle
Mariano Rivera
(I can hardly believe DiMaggio couldn't/didn't make my list)
My all-scrub Yankee infield would be as follows:
1b Curt Blefary
2nd Horace Clarke
SS Tom Tresh
3b Jerry Kenny
Mgr Johnny Keane
Your question first your right but as I said it's only the Yankees I seen play.
I'm not that old Bucky lol...
I love Jeter and enjoyed watching him play for a long time. but who would you take off?
Yeah the Yankees have some players. I grew up with Jeter and he is the captain! 12 years as the yanks captain, most ever. You've seen more ball than I have and I would say Berra but some of his numbers are better than Jet. He should be mentioned, that is all.
Whitey was money and leave my #15 alone that was my number when I played. Only he played left I played 3rd. I don't remember Tommy Tresh playing SS he was a left fielder by trade. Could be wrong long time ago I'll check.
Your right, but when you get a chance go to Wikipedia and look up Yogi Berra
236-106 2.75 ERA Cy Young World Seriers MVP 10X All star
In all fairness in those days they had 2 all start games a year can't remember for how long or when it stop but I remember.