MLB Hometown Heroes

Axtell

There's a neat thing MLB is doing, allowing fans to vote for the all time best from each team.

Here are my selections:

Baltimore - Frank Robinson
Boston - Ted Williams
Chicago White Sox - Frank Thomas
Cleveland - Tris Speaker
Detroit - Ty Cobb
KC - George Brett
LA Angels - Rod Carew
Minnesota - Harmon Killebrew
NY Yankees - Babe Ruth
Oakland - Rickey Henderson
Seattle - Key Griffey Jr.
TB - Wade Boggs
Texas - Nolan Ryan
Toronto - Dave Steib

Arizona - Luis Gonzalez
Atlanta - Hank Aaron
Chicago Cubs - Ernie Banks
Cincinatti - Johnny Bench
Colorado - Todd Helton
Florida - Dontrelle Willis
Houston - Nolan Ryan (only player I selected for 2 teams)
LA Dodgers - Sandy Koufax
Milwaukee - Robin Yount
NY Mets - Tom Seaver
Philadelphia - Steve Carlton
Pittsburgh - Roberto Clemente
St. Louis - Stan Musial
San Diego - Tony Gwynn
SF - Barry Bonds
Washington/Montreal - Gary Carter

Some of these were easy, some were tough...some were odd (Wade Boggs for the D'Rays? I still voted for him

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kcballboy

Can someone explain to me how Rusty Greer and Jim Sundberg are options for the Rangers and Juan Gonzalez is not?

frankhardy

Axtell,

I agreed with you on most. Here are my differences.

Baltimore - Cal Ripken
Cleveland - Bob Feller
Texas - Ivan Rodriguez (I picked Ryan for the Astros)
Toronto - Roberto Alomar (I almost picked Stieb)
Arizona - Randy Johnson
Cincinnatti - Pete Rose
LA - Jackie Robinson
Philly - Mick Schmidt
St Louis - Albert Pujols (This one was the toughest - over Musial)
Giants - Mel Ott (left off Bonds for obvisous reasons and left off Mays because he is about as big of a jerk as Bonds. Yes, I am admitting that it should be one of those two. I just couldn't do it, though.)
Washington - Gary Carter

Dallas88

....and to think my vote for Buddy Biancalana will be wasted

hardcorehockeyfan

Baltimore - Cal Ripken, Jr.
Boston - Ted Williams
Chicago White Sox - Frank Thomas (too bad "Shoeless" was not on the list)
Cleveland - Bob Feller
Detroit - Al Kaline
KC - George Brett
LA Angels - Tim Salmon (Nolan Ryan was not on there, and I consider Carew a Twin)
Minnesota - Harmon Killebrew
NY Yankees - Lou Gehrig (yeah, I would take him over the Babe anyday)
Oakland - Rickey Henderson
Seattle - Edgar Martinez (sorry Jr.)
TB - Wade Boggs
Texas - Ivan Rodriguez (sorry Nolan)
Toronto - Tony Fernandez

Arizona - Luis Gonzalez
Atlanta - Warren Spahn
Chicago Cubs - Ernie Banks
Cincinatti - Pete Rose
Colorado - Todd Helton
Florida - Dontrelle Willis
Houston - Nolan Ryan (Bagwell tied in my book)
LA Dodgers - Sandy Koufax
Milwaukee - Paul Molitor
NY Mets - Tom Seaver
Philadelphia - Mike Schmidt
Pittsburgh - Roberto Clemente
St. Louis - Stan Musial
San Diego - Tony Gwynn
SF - Barry Bonds
Washington/Montreal - Gary Carter

No science to my decisions, only my picks!!!!!!!!!