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Post by basenoc on Oct 6, 2006 7:59:16 GMT -5
Todays team: LOS ANGELES DODGERS
Jackie Robinson, i guess, there're to many but the one i saw and liked alot was Don Sutton, he was known for doctoring baseballs. His nickname was "Black & Decker"; legend has it that when Sutton met notorious greaseballer Gaylord Perry, Perry handed him a tube of Vaseline, and Sutton responded with a thank-you, then handed him a sheet of sandpape ;D ;D
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Post by tomservo on Oct 6, 2006 11:48:32 GMT -5
Jackie is a good one. I always liked Koufax.
In recent years, Mike Piazza.
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Post by basenoc on Oct 6, 2006 12:08:07 GMT -5
i hated the dodgers but i repected the players davey lopes was exciting with russell, cey, garvey
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Post by nyjyrk on Oct 6, 2006 14:26:35 GMT -5
My pick is Duke Snyder.
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Post by basenoc on Oct 7, 2006 9:19:16 GMT -5
Todays team: COLORADO ROCKIES
Larry Walker: Walker's career season came in 1997, when he hit .366 with 49 home runs, 130 RBI, 33 stolen bases, and 409 total bases, en route to becoming the first Canadian player to win a MVP Award.
Walker lost the 1997 Lou Marsh Award for Canadian Athlete of the Year award to Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve. He did, however, win the award the following year.
Combined with 12 outfield assists, the season remains one of the finest all around performances in recent baseball history. Even more impressively, Walker's breakout season came just one year after various injuries limited him to 83 games and 272 at-bats, although the NL Comeback Player of the Year award went to Darren Daulton.
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Post by tomservo on Oct 7, 2006 15:44:14 GMT -5
I abstain
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Post by rzobb on Oct 7, 2006 20:57:33 GMT -5
is that the expos or rockies?
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Post by nyjyrk on Oct 8, 2006 0:00:21 GMT -5
I'll pick Gary Carter. He became a houshold name with the Mets, but his best years were with the 'Spos.
Same thing happened to Andre Dawson. He had some pretty good years in Montreal, but he's best remembered for winning the MVP with the Cubs. It's a shame really. ALot of great players started out as Expos. Randy Johnson, Larry Walker,Marquis Grissom, Rondell White, Mark Grudzelanic, etc...
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Post by tomservo on Oct 8, 2006 2:55:38 GMT -5
The team for today are the Rockies not the expos.
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Post by basenoc on Oct 8, 2006 9:09:13 GMT -5
I'll pick Gary Carter. He became a houshold name with the Mets, but his best years were with the 'Spos. Same thing happened to Andre Dawson. He had some pretty good years in Montreal, but he's best remembered for winning the MVP with the Cubs. It's a shame really. ALot of great players started out as Expos. Randy Johnson, Larry Walker,Marquis Grissom, Rondell White, Mark Grudzelanic, etc... ;D ;D ;D Todays team: ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKSSlim pickins here but i'll go with Luis Gonzalez
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Post by jonorose on Oct 8, 2006 16:06:05 GMT -5
Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling
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Post by tomservo on Oct 8, 2006 16:13:53 GMT -5
Jason Grimsley?
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Post by nyjyrk on Oct 8, 2006 16:16:31 GMT -5
Gonzo.
As for the Rockies (sorry, I misread), I'd go with Todd Helton.
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Post by ericbrat20 on Oct 8, 2006 17:43:15 GMT -5
Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling I'd pick either of them or Luis Gonzalez. Gonzalez has been there for a very long time.
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Post by basenoc on Oct 9, 2006 9:00:56 GMT -5
Todays team: CLEVELAND INDIANS The Tribe has a rich history with many a great players, i never saw this player but i love reading about him. i take NAP LAJOIE won three batting crowns and might have won a fourth if he had not contracted blood poisoning from an untreated spike injury in 1905. With Cobb's arrival in the majors in 1905, however, Lajoie faced real competition.
Their rivalry reached a peak in 1910, when the Chalmers Auto Company promised a car to the batting leader that year. Lajoie, a far more popular player than Cobb, improved his average by going eight for eight in a doubleheader with the St. Louis Browns on the final day of the season. The details of the game led many to question the legitimacy of the hits: six were bunt singles, with the third baseman stationed at the edge of the outfield grass; another was, at best, an error. This error cost Lajoie the title, as he lost by less than .0005 of a point to Cobb, who chose to sit his final two games out rather than risk a bad day at the plate. The Browns fired their manager in the uproar that followed.
As it turns out, Lajoie's average is not the only one tainted by controversy - Cobb's average might have been inflated by counting a single game twice in his statistics, as researchers discovered 70 years later. In the end, the Chalmers Auto Company avoided taking sides in the dispute by awarding cars to both Cobb and Lajoie.
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