Who is your "ALL-TIME" Favorite team ? I'll start with my TIGERS!
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My all-time Tiger team.....I'm not 100% convinced of Denny McLain actually! LOL!
Catcher Bill Freehan
1st Base Hank Greenberg
2nd Base Charlie Gehringer
Shortstop Alan Trammell
3rd Base George Kell (With KUDOS to Aurelio Rodriguez-REST HIS SOUL)
Outfield Harry Heilman
Outfield Ty Cobb
Outfield Uhhh....guess!
Right Handed Pitcher Denny McLain
Left Handed Pitcher Mickey Lolich (With Kudos to Hal Newhouser)
Relief Pitcher John Hiller (With kudos to Willie Hernandez)
Designated Hitter Darrell Evans tied with Rusty Staub
Pinch Hitter NOOOOOOObody else, but GOOD OLE' GATOR! Gates Brown
Manager Mickey Cochrane
Who are yours? Any of these you are pi##sed about? LOL!
Tony
KalineFan
PS--Please, don't dare take any of those outfielders out and insert Kirk Gibson!
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1B: Keith Hernandez, Ed Kranepool
2B: Edgardo Alfonzo
SS: Jose Reyes, Bud Harrelson
3B: David Wright, Wayne Garrett
LF: Cleon Jones,
CF: Mookie Wilson, Lee Mazzilli
RF: Darryl Strawberry
C: Jerry Grote (with apologies to Gary Carter)
RHP: Tom Seaver, Dwight Gooden
LHP: Jerry Koosman
Reliever: Jesse Orosco, John Franco
PH: Rusty Staub, Dave Kingman
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
C Ernie Lombardi.......Does Gary Carter (1990) really count
P Juan Marichal
1 Orlando Cepeda
2 Jeff Kent................Does Joe Morgan (81-82) count
SS ??????????????
3 Jim Ray Hart
OF Willie McCovey
OF Willie Mays
OF Barry Bonds
To be honest, no direction, but...
1966-69 Topps EX+
1975 minis NrMt Kelloggs PSA 9
All Topps Heritage-Master Sets
1B Lou Gehrig
SS Derek Jeter
2B Tony Lazzeri
3B Graig Nettles
LF Joe DiMaggio (sorry Joe, Mickey gets the nod in CF)
CF Mickey Mantle
RF Reggie Jackson
C Yogi Berra
DH Babe Ruth
Bench:
Thurman Munson
Bill Dickey
Lou Pinella
Hank Bauer
Starting Pitchers:
Lefty Gomez
Whitey Ford
Catfish Hunter (in his prime)
Red Ruffing
Allie Reynolds
Bullpen:
Mariano Rivera
Goose Gossage
Dave Righetti
Sparky Lyle
"The answer was in the Patriots eyes. Gone were the swagger and c0ck sure smirks, replaced by downcast eyes and heads in hands. For his poise and leadership Eli Manning was named the game's MVP. The 2007 Giants were never perfect nor meant to be. They were fighters, scrappers....now they could be called something else, World Champions."
My team is the Cleveland Indians, god knows why.. I never even followed baseball until 1986... but i got hooked on the Tribe and have never wavered. My avatar is me at Fenway park this past summer ( I went to all four games Cleveland played in Boston)
Anyhoo, here is my all time team.
Catcher: Sandy Alomar
First Base: Jim Thome (my fav. player of all time)
2nd:Roberto Alomar
SS
3rd:Al Rosen
DH:Larry Doby (gotta include him somehow!)
oF:Kenny Lofton
oF:Cory Snyder (rocket arm!)
oF: Joe Carter
Rh: Rapid Robert! (bob feller, the FIRST hall of famer i ever met at a card show) (2nd choice is Charles Nagy)
Lh:Sudden Sam Mcdowell
Rp: Doug Jones of course!
Bench:
Rocky Colavito
Albert Belle (so much talent, but what a DOUCHE!)
Tom Candiotti (and Phil Niekro for that matter)
Pat Tabler (MR CLUTCH with the bases loaded!)
Brook Jacoby
These arent the best, just my Favorites, too easy to just list the BEST at each position.
Manager: The Human Rain delay of course!
1B: John Mayberry
2B: Frank White
SS: Fred Patek
3B: George Brett
OF: Amos Otis
OF: Willie Wilson
OF: Carlos Beltran
C: Darrell Porter
RHP: Dennis Leonard, Bret Saberhagen
LHP: Paul Splitorff
DH: Hal McRae
Reliever: Dan Quisenberry
1B Willie McCovey
2B Roberto Alomar
3B Graig Nettles
SS Ozzie Smith
LF Rickey Henderson
CF Dave Winfield
RF Tony Gwynn
C Mike Piazza
P Randy Jones
P Gaylord Perry
P Clay Kirby
P Greg Maddux
RP Rollie Fingers
RP Goose Gossage
RP Trevor Hoffman
Mgr Dick Williams
Steve
LF - Jim Rice
CF - Fred Lynn
RF - Dwight Evans
3B - Butch Hobson
SS - Rick Burleson
2D - Jerry Remy
1B - George "Boomer" Scott
C - Carlton Fisk
C - Bob Montgomery
DH - Carl Yastrzemski
SP - Luis "El Tiante" Tiant
SP - Bill "Space Man" Lee
SP - Dennis Eckersley
SP - Mike Torrez
SP - Jim Wright
RP - Bill Campbell
RP - Bob Stanley
RP - Dick Drago
Mgr - Don Zimmer
It was both the happiest and saddest summer of my childhood.
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<< <i>I love this thread
My team is the Cleveland Indians, god knows why.. I never even followed baseball until 1986... but i got hooked on the Tribe and have never wavered. My avatar is me at Fenway park this past summer ( I went to all four games Cleveland played in Boston)
Anyhoo, here is my all time team.
Catcher: Sandy Alomar
First Base: Jim Thome (my fav. player of all time)
2nd:Roberto Alomar
SS
3rd:Al Rosen
DH:Larry Doby (gotta include him somehow!)
oF:Kenny Lofton
oF:Cory Snyder (rocket arm!)
oF: Joe Carter
Rh: Rapid Robert! (bob feller, the FIRST hall of famer i ever met at a card show) (2nd choice is Charles Nagy)
Lh:Sudden Sam Mcdowell
Rp: Doug Jones of course!
Bench:
Rocky Colavito
Albert Belle (so much talent, but what a DOUCHE!)
Tom Candiotti (and Phil Niekro for that matter)
Pat Tabler (MR CLUTCH with the bases loaded!)
Brook Jacoby >>
No love for Tris Speaker? I know he played before 1986, but he put that franchise on the map.
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Norm Cash First Base
Frank Bolling Second Base
Allan Trammel Shortstop
Eddie Yost Third Base
Charlie Maxwell LF
Al Kaline CF
Willie Horton RF
Pudge Rodriegiez C
Frank Lary SP
Mark Fidrych SP
Jim Bunning SP
Jack Morris SP
Kenny Rogers SP
John Hiller RP
Todd Jones RP
Larry Sherry RP
Terry Fox RP
Hank Aguirre RP
Bench,Lance Parrish,Rocky Colavito,Harvey Kuenn,Gates Brown,Darrel Evans,Rocky Bridges,Bill Freehan.
Pitcher:
1 George Mullin
2 Hooks Dauss
3 Mickey Lolich
4 Hal Newhouser
5 Jack Morris
6 John Hiller
7 T Bridges
8 Dizzy Trout
9 Frank Lary
10 Bill Donovan
Catcher:
1 Bill Freehan
2 Lance Parrish
3 Oscar Stanage
4 Johnny Bassler
5 Ray Hayworth
First Base:
1 Norm Cash
2 Hank Greenberg
3 Cecil Fielder
4 Luther Blue
5 Rudy York
Second Base:
1 Charlie Gehringer
2 Lou Whitaker
3 Dick McAuliffe
4 Damion Easley
5 Ralph Young
Third Base:
1 George Kell
2 Aurelio Rodriguez
3 Don Wert
4 Pinky Higgins
5 Tom Brookens
Shortstop
1 Alan Trammell
2 Donie Bush
3 Billy Rogell
4 Harvey Kuenn
5 Deivi Cruz
Outfield:
1 Ty Cobb
2 Al Kaline
3 Sam Crawford
4 Harry Heilmann
5 Bobby Veach
6 Willie Horton
7 Kirk Gibson
8 Bobby Higginson
9 Mickey Stanley
10 Jim Northrup
11 Chet Lemon
12 Pete Fox
13 Charlie Maxwell
14 Ron Leflore
15 Gee Walker
Feedback welcome!
1. LF - Lou Brock
2. 2B - Rogers Hornsby
3. 1B - Albert Pujols
4. RF - Stan Musial
5. 3B - Scott Rolen
6. CF - Jim Edmonds
7. C - Ted Simmons
8. SS - Ozzie Smith
9. P - Bob Gibson
Reliever - Bruce Sutter
Shane
C - Munson
1B - Mattingly
2B - Randolph
SS - Jeter
3B - Nettles
OF - Winfield
OF - B. Williams (tie)
OF - O'Neill
OF - R. Jackson (tie)
DH - Strawberry
P - Guidry, Rivera, Pettitte, Righetti, Wells, Cone
Had to leave out Dent, Posada, Gooden, Cano, Leyritz, Kevin Maas and his great year, and a few other I enjoyed watching. (R. Henderson, Knobby before the throwing stuff, Rick Cerone...)
You know guys - this is great ! Thanks for all the responses. I really screwed up.
I said "FAVORITE", when I meant to say the "BEST". Anyone want to re-vamp it now? LOL!
I will, however, put MY FAVORITE team:
Catcher Bill Freehan
1st Base Norm Cash
2nd Base Lou Whitaker
Shortstop MICKEY STANLEY!
3rd Base Aurelio Rodriguez
Leftfielder Willie Horton
Centerfielder Ty Cobb
Rightfielder Kirk Gibson (JUST KIDDING!-AL KALINE!)
RHP Denny McLain
LHP Mickey Lolich
Relief Pitcher John Hiller
Designated Hitter Darrell Evans
Pinch Hitter Gates Brown
Manager Chuck Dressen
I picked Chuck Dressen over Mayo Smith and Mickey Cochrane ONLY because he is the manager in my humble opinion
that started bringing the Tigers together in the early 60's.
THERE YOU HAVE IT!
Tony
KalineFan
<< <i>All-Time Padres Team:
1B Willie McCovey
2B Roberto Alomar
3B Graig Nettles
SS Ozzie Smith
LF Rickey Henderson
CF Dave Winfield
RF Tony Gwynn
C Mike Piazza
P Randy Jones
P Gaylord Perry
P Clay Kirby
P Greg Maddux
RP Rollie Fingers
RP Goose Gossage
RP Trevor Hoffman
Mgr Dick Williams
Steve >>
That would be one heckuva team if you could of had all those guys in their primes
C G. Hartnett
1B Anson
2B Sandberg
SS Banks
3B Hornsby
Of H. Wilson
Of B. Williams
Of C. Klein
DH Foxx
Bench:Cuyler, Brock, Ashburn, K. Kelly, Tinkers, Evers, Chance, Bresnahan
P Maddux
P Clarkson
p Three Fingers Brown
P Pete 'Grover cleveland' Alexander
P Dizzy Dean
P Fergie Jenkins
P Sutter
P Eckersley
25 man roster of all Hall of Famers...with some liberty of using guys that had a cup of coffee with them
RHP1-Jim Palmer
LHP1 -Mike Cuellar
Rhp2-Mike Mussina
LHP3- Scott McGregor
#5 - Dave McNally
RH Bull pen-Don Stanhouse (Full Pack) never a dull moment
LH Bull pen- Tippy Martinez- Remember 8/24/83 Picked off 3 base runners in the same inning(10th)
RH bull pen - Moe Drabowski - remember his great 66 World series game- I thought he was god
C- Rick dempsey
C- Elrod Hendricks
1B- Boog Powell
1b Eddie Murray
2B- Bobby Grich- great fielder, good obp-power
2b Billy Ripken - When I worked out at old Memorial, you learned never to turn your back to him, GREAT fielder
SS- Cal Ripken
SS Mark Belanger- Great Fielder
3B- Brooks Robinson
LF -John Lowenstein-- Tonight let it be Lowenstein
Lf - Gary Roenicke -- The Rhino-- hit a lot of solo homeruns
Cf - Al Bumbry
Cf - Paul Blair- when I was a small boy, he told me at a clinic that it would be best if I didn't play. I played about 20 years, I still liked him.
RF- Merv rettenmund
RF- " Honorable " mention-- Jim Fuller- In a game in 1974, trying to gun down a runner at home from the right field corner, threw the ball into the press box. I was impressed. Killer arm, no accurracy. Then there was the game where he went back on a ball into the corner . As he turned around , the ball bounced between his legs onto the warning track. He then turn towards the warning track , then the ball hit the wall and bounced back between his legs towards the infield.
PH The " CUZZ" Curt Motton
PH The " CROW " Terry Crowley
Many were left off mainly because I never cared for some of the greats personally.
1. Rod Carew, 2B
2. Joe Mauer, C
3. Kirby Puckett, CF
4. Harmon Killebrew, 3B
5. Tony Oliva, RF
6. Kent Hrbek, 1B
7. Lyman Bostock, LF
8. Greg Gagne, SS
9. Starting Pitcher
Pitchers:
1. Johan Santana, LH
2. Bert Blyleven, RH
3. Jim Kaat, LH
4. Jim Perry, RH
5. Frank Viola, LH
Bullpen:
1. Jerry Koosman
2. Juan Berenguer
3. Rick Aguilera
4. Joe Nathan
Erik
1B - Steve Garvey
2B - Davey Lopes
SS - Bill Russell
3B - Ron Cey
OF - Dusty Baker
OF - Ken Landreux
OF - Pedro Guerrero
SP - Fernando Valenzuela
SP - Burt Hooten
SP - Jerry Reuss
SP - Bob Welch
CL - Steve Howe / Dave Stewart
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1B- Mark McGwire
2B- Dick Green
SS- Campy Campaneris
3B- Sal Bando
RF- Reggie Jackson
CF- Billy North
LF- Joe Rudi
C- Gene Tenace
RP- Rollie Fingers
RP- Dennis Eckersley
SP- Jim "Catfish" Hunter
SP- Vida Blue
SP- Dave Stewart
SP- Tim Hudson
SP- Mark Mulder
1972-1973-1974 Oakland A's
All-time favourite team
C - Fisk
1B - Yaz
2B - Stephens (even though he is a SS I had to put him somewhere)
SS - Garciaparra
3B - Boggs
LF - Williams
CF - Lynn
RF - Evans
DH - Ramirez and Ortiz
BENCH
Gedman (pre holdout)
Pena
Carbo
Rice
Burleson
Nixon (Trot not Otis)
SP - Martinez, Clemens, Hurst, Boyd, Schilling, Tiant, Eckersley
SP-Middle Relief-Mop Up - Closer - Wakefield
Closer - Foulke (2004) or Mark Clear just to make things exciting every time out
Manager - Ralph Houk or Dick Williams
Edited to add Eckersley, who I cannot believe I forgot. Although it would have been nice to have him as the closer.
Love the offense, and the top four pitchers....Pedro, Clemens, Tiant, and Schilling.
The late 70's Dodgers teams(and '81) are some of the coolest teams to enjoy. I like their 1978 yearbook with all the key guys on the cover.
<< <i>All-time favorite Cardinal team (not the best):
C - Pena
1B - Clark
2B - Herr
SS - Ozzie
3B - Torre
LF - Brock
CF - McGee
RF - Hendrick
DH - No self-respecting team has a DH; Cardinal pitchers can bat for themselves.
BENCH
Pujols
Rolen
Edmonds
Porter
Coleman
Braun
SP - Gibson, Tudor, Andujar, Osborne
Middle Relief - Dayley
Closer - Hrabosky
Manager - Whitey
Obviously, I have a bias to the WS teams of the 80's but the current crop just hasn't grown on me yet.
<< <i>LF - Mickey Mantle
CF - Joe DiMaggio
RF - Babe Ruth
SS - Derek Jeter
3B - Craig Nettles
2B - Tony Lazzeri
1B - Lou Gehrig
C - Bill Dickey (or Yogi almost identical)
DH - Don Mattingly
P - Whitey Ford >>
As much as I love my Cardinals, and as good a team as the Red Sox and the A's could put together, in the hypothetical best-all-time-lineup league I still think the Yankees win over 100 games year in and year out. They're a little thin on starting pitching (assuming they don't get to steal Clemens, Perry and Niekro) but would it even matter? There are four players on this team better than the best player on almost every other team.