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MLB 2014: I paid the $20 mil posting fee for the right to start this thread

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question I've been pondering lately... 10 players you wish you could have seen.

Mays with the NY Giants
Mantle in '51 before he hurt his knee
Gehrig in his prime
Clemente in his prime
Koufax in LA
Josh Gibson in his prime
Ray Dandridge
young Aaron in 1957
Jackie Robinson in the early years in Brooklyn
Satchel Paige

I would've said 5, but I had a hard enough time narrowing it to 10.
 
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Ruth
Rose
Koufax
Killebrew
Mantle

Bob Gibson
Cy Young
Cobb
Mays
Paige
 
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In their primes:

Koufax
Mays
Ruth
Cobb
Ford
Paige
Foxx
Clemente
Musial
Ted Williams

Team I would have liked to have seen: The early to mid 50's Yankees teams, when they were really rolling, with a young Mantle and Whitey Ford, plus Yogi in his prime.

Stadiums I would have liked to have seen: Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds (duh).
 
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Ernie Banks
Bob Gibson
Ruth
Mays
Mantle
Ted Williams
Sandy Koufax
Cy Young
Warren Spahn
DiMaggio
 
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Carew (yes I'm old enough to have seen him, but was too young to really appreciate the brilliance of his prime)
Mays
Cobb
The Mick
Shoeless Joe
Gibson
Robinson, Brooks
Robinson, Jackie
Koufax
Ruth

Thus was hard, a lot of amazing players bit named there.
 
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Some good picks. I really have no desire to see Babe Ruth. If I'd been around then, I don't think I would've been a fan. He's one guy I avoid when looking at baseball books (and there are TONS of books about him). Gehrig is more my style.

Joe Jackson and Bob Gibson would be in my next 5. :)

Hammer: No Kaline or Greenberg? Everyone seems to have a homer pick (although you did say Cobb).
 
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My choices

DiMaggio
The summer of 1941
Babe Ruth
Walter Johnson
Christy Mathewson
Jackie Robinson
Gibson
Cool Papa Bell
Brooks Robinson
Frank Robinson
 
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Satchell
Cy
Honus (just b/c the sports card geek in me)
Rickey (was old enough to see him, but not old enough to fully appreciate the stolen base factor. That record won't be broken)
Walter J
 
jen said:
Some good picks. I really have no desire to see Babe Ruth. If I'd been around then, I don't think I would've been a fan. He's one guy I avoid when looking at baseball books (and there are TONS of books about him). Gehrig is more my style.

Joe Jackson and Bob Gibson would be in my next 5. :)

Hammer: No Kaline or Greenberg? Everyone seems to have a homer pick (although you did say Cobb).
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I waffled on Greenberg. I've seen parts of the '68 Series, the '71 All Star Game, and parts of the '72 ALCS (even though Kaline was past his prime by then). I'm good with Kaline. I'd rather see Whitey or Yogi, circa early to mid 50's. I don't think people still realize just how good Yogi was.

One name I can't believe I missed: Gehringer.
 
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And Jen, you must admit, it would have been a blast to go out drinking with Ruth for one night. Although very few of us would make it back in one piece.
 
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I'm tempted to pick 10 Sandy Koufax games instead of ten players. I'd start with game 7 of the 1965 WS.

Koufax
Micky Mantle
A young Henry Aaron
A young Willie Mays
Rogers Hornsby
Ty Cobb
Bob Feller
Ted Williams
Duke Snider (want to know for myself how close he was to Mays and Mantle in his prime)
Hack Wilson in 1930 (how the heck do you drive in 191 runs on one season?)

... and like Jen had a hard time with 10. Ask again in a year and 9 names would be different. (always will want to have seen Koufax pitch)
 
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Brenthoven said:
Rickey (was old enough to see him, but not old enough to fully appreciate the stolen base factor. That record won't be broken)
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130 SB has got to be one of those records never to be broken. His total for that one season is almost as much as either league leader the last three seasons combined (154/NL-157/AL).
 
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jen said:
question I've been pondering lately... 10 players you wish you could have seen.

Mays with the NY Giants
Mantle in '51 before he hurt his knee
Gehrig in his prime
Clemente in his prime
Koufax in LA
Josh Gibson in his prime
Ray Dandridge
young Aaron in 1957
Jackie Robinson in the early years in Brooklyn
Satchel Paige

I would've said 5, but I had a hard enough time narrowing it to 10.
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A good list.

Not to nitpick, but Mantle in '51 (his rookie season) before his serious knee injury in the Series was fairly average. .267 batting average. 13 homers. 65 rbi in 96 games. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mantlmi01-bat.shtml
 
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Priceless said:
...Phillies $185,965,235...
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All that for 73 wins, last place and a half-full park most nights... Well what should I expect living in a country where the government will pay $1000 for a toilet or $500 for a screwdriver...:eek::D
 
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Ok I'll jump in. It's assumed I want to see them when they were their best.

Any of the 60s Twins stars like Killabrew.
S. Koufax
J. Bench
L. Gehrig
W. Mays
S. Musical
J. Robinson
B. Gibson
T. Williams
T. Seaver
 
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I didn't have the attention span to put together a complete list of 10, but in particular I think it would've been something to see Walter Johnson in 1924. His numbers that year aren't as gaudy as they were from 1910 to 1919 or so, when he was in his prime and the dead-ball era was going strong, but I think it's amazing that, at 36, he was still dominating hitters 10-15 years younger than him.

Tangent: Johnson won his second MVP award that year, back well before the Cy Young Award existed. The Senators won the pennant that year, after the Babe Ruth-led Yankees had won three in a row, and Johnson was again their best player in addition to being, I would assume, a sentimental favorite; everyone loves a fading star having one last awesome year. The Yankees finished in second, three games back, and Ruth was their best position player by leaps and bounds, with only Herb Pennock having a similarly good season; Ruth hit 46 homers out of the team's 98 total, and hit .378 with an OBP over .500. And yet he was completely shut out of the MVP voting; Pennock finished 4th, with teammates Wally Pipp (in his last full season before Lou Gehrig's emergence) and veteran catcher Wally Schang also getting some support. But Ruth was obviously the star and the best player, and he'd run away with the MVP award (getting all the first place votes) in a similarly great season in 1923. So why did he get absolutely no consideration in 1924? Did the voters just not like him?
 
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It's Biggio, Pedro, Smoltz, Johnson.
 
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Three first-balloters in a single year? Holy hell!
 
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