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1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: March 14, 2007 at 05:30 PM (#2311913)1933 Ballot Discussion
Left Fielder Positional Thread
If you know of any others, please let me know.
Then I was going to list him among the All-Boston-Area-Indie-Bands Team, but Mission of Burmha, Standells, and Modern Lovers offers zero help.
Maybe the All-Futures team? There's got to be a Soy out there, right?
[slinks off, grumbling dejectedly to self...]
:-D
positioning is based on where they played the most games
C <u>Birdie</u> Tebbetts
1B Dots <u>Miller</u>
2B <u>Miller</u> Huggins
SS Eddie <u>Miller</u>
3B Home Run <u>Baker</u>
RF <u>Babe Ruth</u> (the candy bar (form what I hear Ken Griffrey's and the "reggie Bar" wouldn't be consederd food))
CF Ty Cobb (the Georgan <u>Peach</u>)
LF <u>Ducky</u> Medwick
P David <u>Cone</u>
P <u>Candy</u> Cummings
P <u>Fat</u> Freddie Fitzsimmons
P Bob <u>Lemon</u>
P Jim (<u>Cakes</u>)Palmer
RP <u>Goose</u> Gossage
Bench <u>Cookie </u>Rojas
Bench Ken <u>Berry </u>
Bench Zack <u>Wheat</u>
Bench Bing <u>Miller</u>
Bench Sam <u>Rice</u>
Bench Johnny <u>Oates</u>
Bench <u>Pie</u> Traynor
Bench Harry <u>Rice</u>
Bench Jim <u>Rice</u>
Bench Del <u>Rice</u>
Bench <u>Taffy</u> Wright
Bench <u>Goose</u> Goslin
Bench Rusty (Le Grand <u>Orange</u>) Staub
Bench Jack (<u>Peach Pie</u>) O'Connor
Bullpen Dan Quisen<u>berry</u>
Bullpen Mark (The <u>Bird</u>) Fidrych
1B <u>Dots</u> Miller
2B Chico <u>Salmon</u>
SS Bobby <u>Wine</u>
3B <u>Buck</u> Weaver
Bench <u>Preztels</u> Getzein
I'd also favor:
C Ray "<u>Cracker</u>" Schalk
CF <u>Turkey</u> Stearnes
P <u>Catfish</u> Hunter
There are so many legitimately good choices for this team: Darryl Strawberry, Chet Lemon, Dizzy and Steve Trout, Spud Chandler, Chili Davis, Kevin Bass, Danny Napoleon. Mayo Smith can be the manager.
Its a nickname, but "Tomato Face" Cullop paints an amusing picture.
Don't forget beverages: Todd Coffey, Fred Waters, Clarence Beers, Pedro Bo(u)rbon, Tinsley Ginn, and Bill Popp.
Also seasoning: Laurin and Ray Pepper (plus some others with that name), and all five guys named Curry.
What was that about nicknames?
And if you are going for a pastry, go the HOFer instead.
"Chili" Davis should have been bolded too.
And no mention of Harmon Killebrew?
With fellow traveler Sam Mealy as bench coach.
How can I keep these guys straight? Short names with the same initials. Easy to distinguish from Hank Bauer but not from each other.
Certainly not Williams or Musial; he's got good company in the next tier with Burkett, Clarke and Delahanty and Simmons.
He is very highly placed in the Grey Ink aspect of bbref (I am well aware of the inherent weaknesses of solely basing a players worth on those numbers alone) but 27th is nothing to sneeze at either.
Teammates for Wheat, age 39, included Jack Quinn (43) and HOMers ECollins (40), Cobb (40), Grove (27), Simmons (25), Cochrane (24), and Foxx (19). That could have made for a heckuva book; or 1928, when Wheat's role was taken by replacement Tris Speaker (40).
Must have been a refreshing change for Zack from his 1909 debut, playing for a Brooklyn team that didn't have a single player that ever got a single HOM vote (Bill Dahlen got 2 AB for the 1910 Brooklyn version, at least).
And how'd you like to have been a schmo like Walter French or Bill Lamar, who each shared OF time with Cobb, Simmons, and Wheat in 1927?
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