Who is your favorite all time baseball player?

Question

Who is your favorite all time baseball player?

Answer 1

maddux

Answer 2

I was only 6-8 years old at the time but the memories of when the Oakland A's won three consecutive World Series between 1972-74 are still fresh and I'd put that team against any other in baseball history.

Two players from that team remain my all-time favorites:

-- d**k Green was the second baseman and was named MVP of the '74 World Series for his amazing defensive play. I have a baseball signed by him from 1973 and, admittedly, this is one reason why he's one of my favorties. He wore #1 on his uniform. He retired after that last World Series win and today his name rarely gets mentioned, but he was a great defensive player.

-- Jim "Catfish" Hunter was the main starting pitcher for that team, a dominating side-armed right hander who won 25 games in 1974, his last year with the A's. Free agency was fairly new at the time and I was disappointed when he ended up signing with the Yankees but I never stopped rooting for him and was glad to see him add two more Series rings to his collection. He was eventually diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and I regretted not going to see the A's pay tribute to him before a game in 1999 as he later succommed to the illness a few months later. By all accounts, he was as great a man off the field as he was a player on it. He wore #27 with the A's and #29 with the Yankees and could chew tobacco with the best of them.

Answer 3

Tony Gwynn

Answer 4

Dirk Nowitzki!!!

hes an amazing player...

he's a big man who can shoot the outside shot, freethrows, jump shots anywhere and he can get big inside the pain....tell me someone else who does what he does as good as him

my bad i thought you said basketball....

my favorite baseball player is Javy Lopez....

he was great

Answer 5

alex rodriguez he is hot!!!!

Answer 6

All time-David Henderson and Babe Ruth

Current- Ryan Sweeney

Answer 7

Al Kaline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp_y8EJeO...

'nuff said

Answer 8

Ryne Sandberg.  He excelled at everything.  One of only 3 players ever to have seasons of 50 SB and 40 HRs.

Gold glover at 2nd base.  

I took an 9 hour drive down to Chicago to see him too.

Answer 9

It's hard to narrow it down to just one, but if I had to I would pick Hank Aaron. I just think of him starting out in the African-American Leagues (YA automatically edits it when I  say the usual name for those leagues), integrating two southern minor leagues and then moving up to the majors and all he accomplished there. The classic five tool player. Even after all the racist threats against him as he closed in on Ruth's record he always conducted himself with class and dignity. A phenomenal ballplayer and an even better human being.

Unclesox...I loved d**k Green on that A's team too. Overshadowed by all the big names, but he had an amazing series. Gene Tenace the year before, too.

Answer 10

arod dj and johnny damon

Answer 11

That's gotta be Roberto Clemente.I think he was an amazing player,but an even more amazing person.My grandfather actually has this old footage that he showed me of him playing,and it even shows the game in which he got his 3,000th career hit.Everytime I watch it I just think what kind of numbers he would've put up if it wasn't for his death.

Answer 12

Rip Sewell very nice eephus pitch one of the only one's to ever throw it. About the only homeruns on that pitch are 1 by Ted Williams and 1 by Tony Perez.

Answer 13

My favorite player is Steve Sax. Maybe because he was the first player I ever met, but ever since I was a little kid he was my favorite. Of the players playing now it's Russell Martin.

Answer 14

1. Roberto Clemente' followed closely by Roy Campanella & Thurman Munson

Answer 15

Cal Ripkin Jr Because He always Played a game no matter what and he won everything Two All-Star Games, a MVP, Three Golden Gloves, a World Series Title for Baltimore He Accomplished everything in His Career.

Answer 16

Frank Howard....Washington Senators

Answer 17

Bernie Williams-

Genuinely good guy

As clutch as they come

Red Sox killer

Not cocky, just went on about his business

Great defensively

Could hit 1-9, wherever Torre needed him.

4 count em 4 WS Titles

Answer 18

Nolan Ryan and Ivan Rodriguez

Answer 19

Pudge, A-Rod.

Answer 20

For me Reggie Jackson.

Answer 21

George Brett

Answer 22

Perennial 17 game winner from the 1970's, Bill "The Spaceman" Lee.  

Answer 23

juan gonzales, but then i heard he did steroids so nvrmind,

michael young, he has quietly had a good career

Answer 24

BABE RUTH ALEX RODRIGUEZ MICKEY MANTLE DEREK JETER LOU GEHRIG AND JOE DIMAGGIO ALL YANKEES ONCE

Answer 25

Probably Rod Carew or Tony Oliva

I was at an event and those two great men recited a skit, and it was absolutely hilarious. They're good guys and INCREDIBLE ballplayers. Undisputabely amazing players.