the baseball MT. RUSHMORE...presidents day question...

benderbroeth · February 20, 2012 10:53AM

so today on facebook i noticed that the MLB facebook page asked people who they would put on a baseball version of mt. rushmore, who would you add as most influential players managers or whatever for baseball?
basketball, hockey, football or suckor...er soccer?

prthd · February 20, 2012 11:20AM

Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Sandy Koufax, and I guess Mantle.

perkdog · February 20, 2012 12:06PM

Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Willie Mays and Cy Young

WinPitcher · February 20, 2012 12:21PM

Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente and Sandy Koufax.

megatron · February 20, 2012 12:21PM

To many, the Mt. Rushmore of baseball would be very biased towards previous generations. The Boomers would come out in full force and claim that all of the players from their youth were the best and players from today have no place on it.

MBMiller25 · February 20, 2012 11:08PM

Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson and Mickey Mantle

Brick · February 20, 2012 11:37PM

I believe Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth without a doubt need to be there. After that there are many candidates. I would pick Hank Aaron and Mickey Mantle. As far as prejudice against modern players when the time came to discuss them they would no longer be modern players. I think I heard that on the actual Mt. Rushmore one must be dead 25 years before they can be added.

orioles93 · February 21, 2012 2:28AM

Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, and Ted Williams

Probstein123 · February 21, 2012 8:03AM

Babe Ruth , Honus Wagner , Christy Mathewson , Ty Cobb

pmcollectour · February 21, 2012 9:13AM

Babe Ruth..........no reason to explain why

Jackie Robinson.......(or Branch Rickey), but Jackie would be better.

Roberto Clemente......great player who died doing charitable work helping earthquake victims. Would be the best representative to
represent latin american players

Cy Young................... We'd have to put a pitcher up there. It would be an injustice not to.

pmcollectour · February 21, 2012 9:14AM

In 1943-more than a decade before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and Rosa Parks began the Montgomery bus boycott-Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, embarked on an effort to recruit black ballplayers for his team, and in 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field in a Dodgers uniform. Integration in sports led the way to a wider acceptance of the need for racial equality.

benderbroeth · February 21, 2012 4:34PM

<< <i>In 1943-more than a decade before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and Rosa Parks began the Montgomery bus boycott-Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, embarked on an effort to recruit black ballplayers for his team, and in 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field in a Dodgers uniform. Integration in sports led the way to a wider acceptance of the need for racial equality. >>

yeah recently i saw a documentary on the subject and it said that not only should the first african americans in sports be celebrated but the whites who went out on a limbe to fight to get them on the field/court...

vladguerrero · February 22, 2012 12:28AM

Ruth, Robinson, Williams, Aaaron

lanemyer85 · February 22, 2012 7:07AM

votes for Robinson, Koufax, and Clemente, but not for someone like King Kelly....interesting. Looks like Megatron was correct.

jay0791 · February 22, 2012 8:13AM

babe ruth, mickey mantle ,nolan ryan, larry walker

Probstein123 · February 22, 2012 9:06AM

babe ruth, mickey mantle ,nolan ryan, larry walker

==> huh ?

you mean:

babe ruth, mickey mantle ,nolan ryan, jeremy lin

WinPitcher · February 22, 2012 2:52PM

I thought the purpose of this thread was for
most influential, not best.

benderbroeth · February 22, 2012 5:39PM

<< <i>I thought the purpose of this thread was for
most influential, not best. >>

correct....

CEOBIDMC · February 22, 2012 11:49PM

if its most influential then you should put curt flood up there

alnavman · February 23, 2012 2:09AM

Andy Messersmith???

dontippet · February 23, 2012 3:37AM

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Rose yet. I know why he hasn't been mentioned, but still thought someone would have by now.

lanemyer85 · February 23, 2012 6:07AM

<< <i>if its most influential then you should put curt flood up there >>

agreed. And if it's strictly influential you can sandblast Ruth off of that boulder and throw someone like Albert Spalding, Kennesaw Mountain Landis, or Marvin Miller up there as well. If you're going to put Clemente on that rock for what he did to popularize baseball in Latin America, then you have to do the same with King Kelly for what he did for the Irish/Irish-Americans since the Irish faced essentially the same treatment in professional baseball as African Americans did post Robinson/Doby's integration, and Latin Americans in the prior century including getting paid less despite being close to 25% better statistically as a whole during the league's advent to Ruth's era....and being excluded for managerial positions. Honorable mention to Bill James and Vince Gennero for revolutionizing stats in the game.

WinPitcher · February 25, 2012 9:57AM

yeah the White Sox scandal never happened.

the baseball MT. RUSHMORE...presidents day question...

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