Your Favorite all-time baseball player..

[33bird]

Current thread is going. How about your all-time favorites. No more than 5 dudes:
1. Pete Rose
2. Johnny Bench
3. Jeff Kent
4. Jimmie Foxx
5. Lefty Grove
Man, there's more. Only 5 kills me. Cause I love Teddy Ball Game, Tony Perez, Concepcion, Morgan; Plus no names like Bruce Bochte and Claudell Washington in my youth.

[Rob L]

1. Walter Johnson
2. The Babe
3. Percy

Wow, who would thought Percival would rate with Ruth and The Big Train

[nomarmauerfan]

1.) Larry Bowa - growing up in the '70's
2.) Don Mattingly - in the '80's
3.) Nomar Garciaparra - in the 90's
4.) Justin Morneau - now
5.) Lou Gehrig - my favorite player I never got to see play live

Mike

[Kid4hof03]

1. Bernie Williams
2. Gary Carter
3. Roger Maris
4. Ron Gant
5. Reggie Jackson

This was tougher than I thought, had to leave off guys like Darryl Strawberry, Pete Rose, Dwight Gooden, Tim Raines, Andre Dawson and Johnny Bench.

[AWA85]

1. Barry Larkin
2. Ken Griffey Jr
3. Homer Bailey
4. Jay Bruce
5............. Deivi Cruz can't believe Deivi did not make anyone else lists?!?

[cohibasmoker]

Baseball:
-ANY PLAYER WHO RESISTED TAKING STEROIDS WHEN OTHERS DID;
-Curt Flood - Stood-up for what he believed was right;
-Johnny Callison - Growing-up in Philly, everyone wanted to be JC. Had a lot of personal tragedy but kept it to himself;
-Joe DiMaggio - because I met and ate lunch with him several times
-Willie Mays - contrary to popular belief, he is a terrific guy

Football:
-Tim Rossovich - No-one can eat glass the way Tim could;
-Vince Papale - Against all odds, he made it because everyone said he couldn't and we both went to St. Joseph's University;
-Bill Bradley - In the day, no-one played as hard as Bill Bradley

Favorite Manager and/or Coach:
-Gene Mauch - Got a bad rap with the Phillies & just missed with the Angels by one out;
-Dick Vermeil - a stand-up guy.

Jim

[Swoboda4]

1. Ron Swoboda
2. Catfish Hunter
3. Pete Rose
4. Dave Mlicki
5. a-Robin Ventura
b-Riggs Stephenson

[staindsox]

1. Honus Wagner
2. Christy Mathewson
3. Joe Jackson
4. Nap Lajoie
5. Rube Waddell

and have to mention John McGraw as a manager.

Chris

[2000mvpfan]

Growing up in NJ in the late 70's/early 80's it was simple:
Mattingly
Munson
Schmidt
Brett
Jackson
..And though I never saw them play,saw them at shows enough times to read about the careers of and admire Mantle,DiMaggio,Williams,and Aaron.

Joe

[MJB14]

1. Jim Rice
2. Frank Thomas
3. Willie Mays
4. Andy Van Slyke
5. Carlton Fisk