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Who would be on your baseball Mount Rushmore?

coolstanleycoolstanley Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Pick 4 of the greats who you think should be on Major League Baseballs Mount Rushmore. And 2 players for honorable mention. My list...

Babe Ruth
Willie Mays
Barry Bonds
Ted Williams

Honorable mention:

Stan Musial
Hank Aaron

Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pete Rose
    Ted Williams
    Willie Mays
    Hank Aaron

    Honorable mention:

    Stan Musial
    Nolan Ryan

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 30, 2020 5:16AM

    Babe Ruth
    Willie Mays
    Ty Cobb
    Ted Williams

    Honorable mention:

    Nolan Ryan
    Hank Aaron

  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lou Gehrig.
    Jackie Robinson.
    Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
    Willie Mays.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds

  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Babe
    Ty
    Ted
    Joe D
    Cy Young

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:
    Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds

    You are kidding......right Paul! Barry Bonds!

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN said:

    @perkdog said:
    Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds

    You are kidding......right Paul! Barry Bonds!

    It’s my Mount Rushmore Jon. I don’t expect everyone to agree with it. 🍻

  • coolstanleycoolstanley Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I dont understand how Babe Ruth can be left out? Could someone explain?

    Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:

    @DIMEMAN said:

    @perkdog said:
    Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds

    You are kidding......right Paul! Barry Bonds!

    It’s my Mount Rushmore Jon. I don’t expect everyone to agree with it. 🍻

    Yes, but I thought we were on the same page with this POS cheater.

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coolstanley said:
    I dont understand how Babe Ruth can be left out? Could someone explain?

    Simple.....I went with the All Time Hit Leader.....The HR Leader......Mr. Baseball (Williams).....and the best All Round Player Mays.

    Ruth was none of these.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN said:

    @perkdog said:

    @DIMEMAN said:

    @perkdog said:
    Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds

    You are kidding......right Paul! Barry Bonds!

    It’s my Mount Rushmore Jon. I don’t expect everyone to agree with it. 🍻

    Yes, but I thought we were on the same page with this POS cheater.

    Nope I have always liked Bonds, my stance has always been that he put himself on the same level playing field of his peers and was just better. Yep he was PED user just like most of MLB was back at that time.

  • coolstanleycoolstanley Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Plenty of cheaters in the Hall....Cobb, Perry, Ford, Brett, etc

    Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!

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  • coolstanleycoolstanley Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN said:

    @coolstanley said:
    I dont understand how Babe Ruth can be left out? Could someone explain?

    Simple.....I went with the All Time Hit Leader.....The HR Leader......Mr. Baseball (Williams).....and the best All Round Player Mays.

    Ruth was none of these.

    Ruth is the all time leader in both slugging and OPS. Record book says Bonds is the all time HR leader.

    Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!

    Ignore list -Basebal21

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coolstanley said:

    @DIMEMAN said:

    @coolstanley said:
    I dont understand how Babe Ruth can be left out? Could someone explain?

    Simple.....I went with the All Time Hit Leader.....The HR Leader......Mr. Baseball (Williams).....and the best All Round Player Mays.

    Ruth was none of these.

    Ruth is the all time leader in both slugging and OPS. Record book says Bonds is the all time HR leader.

    None of Bonds stats should mean a thing to anyone. He was a POS Cheater. Aaron is the All Time HR Leader.

    Ruth was very good against his peers of the day, but no way the best of all time at anything.

  • coolstanleycoolstanley Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN said:

    @coolstanley said:

    @DIMEMAN said:

    @coolstanley said:
    I dont understand how Babe Ruth can be left out? Could someone explain?

    Simple.....I went with the All Time Hit Leader.....The HR Leader......Mr. Baseball (Williams).....and the best All Round Player Mays.

    Ruth was none of these.

    Ruth is the all time leader in both slugging and OPS. Record book says Bonds is the all time HR leader.

    None of Bonds stats should mean a thing to anyone. He was a POS Cheater. Aaron is the All Time HR Leader.

    Ruth was very good against his peers of the day, but no way the best of all time at anything.

    Dont get me wrong. I love your list. Big Rose fan and he's one of the best. I just dont see how you can leave out Ruth? He put out monster numbers and all the historians have him at either #1 or #2 greatest player of all time. As for Bonds, he won three MVP's before steroids. And was on a level playing field when he got big.

    Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!

    Ignore list -Basebal21

  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mine would probably look like this:

    Ruth
    Mantle
    Williams
    Walter Johnson

    Possibly swap in Barry Bonds or Mike Trout (in a few years) for Williams.

  • 1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,368 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 31, 2020 5:44PM

    Ty Cobb
    G.H. Babe Ruth
    Jackie Robinson
    Ken Griffey, Jr.

    I wanted my Mount Rushmore to meet certain criteria: I wanted to have four different caps (4 Yankees crossed my mind immediately 😂), cover a large part of the games history and feature stars of different eras.

    Honorable Mention: Willie Mays, Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle

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  • JRR300JRR300 Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭✭

    Extremely difficult choices here. My list would have to include a pitcher as it is so much a part of the game...so here goes

    the Babe
    Wille Mays
    Ted Williams
    Cy Young

    Hon Mention
    Mantle,Cobb,Gehrig, Aaron and Musial

  • zippcityzippcity Posts: 960 ✭✭✭✭

    Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Pete Rose Nolan Ryan.

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  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,806 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JRR300 said:
    Extremely difficult choices here. My list would have to include a pitcher as it is so much a part of the game...so here goes

    the Babe
    Wille Mays
    Ted Williams
    Cy Young

    Hon Mention
    Mantle,Cobb,Gehrig, Aaron and Musial

    I like your list but would replace Cy Young with Walter Johnson.

    Like your HM list as well, maybe add Jimmy Foxx and Rogers Hornsby.

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  • JRR300JRR300 Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭✭

    @JoeBanzai said:
    I like your list but would replace Cy Young with Walter Johnson.

    Like your HM list as well, maybe add Jimmy Foxx and Rogers Hornsby.

    Johnson was my HM pitcher that I forgot to include.
    I do believe that a more modern day player should be included also. Probably Griffey Jr.

  • JRR300JRR300 Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭✭

    then how do you leave off Cy Young who won 511 games? that's almost 100 more than Johnson.

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 31, 2020 5:54PM

    @JRR300 said:
    then how do you leave off Cy Young who won 511 games? that's almost 100 more than Johnson.

    I’m going with Cobb, Ruth, Mays and Ted Williams.

    It might be fun to do a Mt Rushmore of players one actually saw play in their prime

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  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cy Young
    Babe Ruth
    Jackie Robinson
    Willie Mays

    These aren't the four greatest players ever, but they are the players I would choose to represent baseball.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mine would be Ruth, Cobb, Ted Williams and Mays.



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  • sayheywyosayheywyo Posts: 500 ✭✭✭✭

    ROID RUSHMORE

    Barry Bonds
    Alex Rodriquez
    Roger Clemens
    Mark McGwire

  • PatsGuy5000PatsGuy5000 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭

    Babe Ruth
    Ted Williams
    Willie Mays
    Hank Aaron

  • AFLfanAFLfan Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 15, 2020 9:21AM

    Interesting discussions here. With as many dominant pitchers as there have been over the years, it is tough to reserve space for someone who only plays 1/4 or 1/5 of the games in a season. A Mt. Rushmore is also tough because it has no real definition. Four best overall players? Four players with greatest influence? Four players with greatest offensive statistics?

    I don't follow baseball as closely as I used to, but I am thinking that in a few years we might say...

    Babe Ruth
    Jackie Robinson
    Willie Mays
    Mike Trout

    Edited to add Rickey Henderson as one of my alternates.

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ruth,Musial,Clemente,Mays.

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  • 3stars3stars Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In keeping with the fact that Mt Rushmore mostly has early presidents and one new (at the time) one:

    Ty Cobb
    Cy Young
    Babe Ruth
    Willie Mays

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  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ruth
    Mays
    Koufax
    Randy Johnson

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