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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Lou Gehrig

Eligible in 1944.

John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: February 18, 2007 at 02:02 PM | 9 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: February 18, 2007 at 02:11 PM (#2299612)

My favorite player of all-time was analyzed in these threads:

1944 Ballot Discussion

First Basemen Positional Thread

If you know of any others, please let me know.

2. Dr. Chaleeko Posted: February 18, 2007 at 06:07 PM (#2299687)

You know that silly little game I always come back to where you string players' names together? You can do it with Gehrig's nickname:

The old iron hoss of the osage

Folks, this is great analysis.

3. Alex meets the threshold for granular review Posted: February 18, 2007 at 10:27 PM (#2299758)

My favorite player of all-time was analyzed in these threads:

I thought that was Seaver. Your two favorite players are a Met and a Yankee!

TRAITOR! :)

4. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: February 18, 2007 at 11:19 PM (#2299765)

I thought that was Seaver. Your two favorite players are a Met and a Yankee!

TRAITOR! :)

Heh.

Seaver is my all-time favorite Met and player that I actually saw, but I saw "Pride of the Yankees" even before that happened. :-)

5. vortex of dissipation Posted: February 21, 2007 at 08:00 PM (#2301290)

It's interesting how a favorite player that you never saw can be from a team that's a rival of the team you root for. I'm the same way. I grew up a Reds' fan in the 1970s, and hated the Dodgers. Yet of players who played before I became a fan, my all-time favorite is Sandy Koufax...

6. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: February 21, 2007 at 10:41 PM (#2301389)

It's interesting how a favorite player that you never saw can be from a team that's a rival of the team you root for.

It helped that my allegiance to any one team wasn't cemented yet. I have also never been a hater of the Yankees and always rooted for them to win the pennant, but ultimately lose to my Mets. Hasn't worked out that way, though. :-(

7. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: February 22, 2007 at 12:04 AM (#2301449)

LOL

8. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: February 22, 2007 at 12:29 AM (#2301458)

Lou Gehrig quit on his team. Unforgivable!

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