Baseball - is there an official All Decade Team?

digicat

I know they have various "All Decade Teams" for football. Do they have an official one for baseball?

TomGshotput

If anyone did try to claim an "official" team, they would probably make at least one wrong choice, so it's good that there is none. Major League Baseball came out with an All-Century team in 1999 that was absolutely not the best players of the century. . .

Goot

<< <i>If anyone did try to claim an "official" team, they would probably make at least one wrong choice, so it's good that there is none. Major League Baseball came out with an All-Century team in 1999 that was absolutely not the best players of the century. . . >>



What would you change about it other than Mcgwire?

TomGshotput

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Century_Team

looking back it actually came pretty close. At least for position players. But most of that is because of the "oversight committee"

Morgan at second; Brett (or Mathews) at third, well ahead of Brooks Robinson; Rose was a horrible choice, Speaker, Clemente, Kaline, Frank Robinson, Yastrzemski, Henderson, even Bonds before this century had a better career than Rose. And of course Foxx at first

Pitchering choices were simply dumb. There are many pitchers who had better careers than Ryan: Ford, Roberts, Marichal, Seaver, Palmer, Carlton, Maddux. And then there was Cy Young who spent half his career in the nineteenth century. . .