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Post by bomberhojoe on Feb 4, 2024 19:21:59 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #3 Lou GehrigHe means way more beyond baseball, but Lou Gehrig was also a heck of a baseball player.
3rd! I figured the Iron Horse would be 2nd. .340 lifetime average, 1,995 RBI, ans 2,130 consecutive games played! He averaged 141 runs and 149 RBI per season for his career!!! |
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Post by kaybli on Feb 5, 2024 21:51:05 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #2 Mickey MantleAs a player, the Mick’s achievements transcend all eras and put him right up there with the very best players in history. The legend, however, endured his fair share of suffering and pain in his life.
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Post by inger on Feb 5, 2024 22:23:42 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #3 Lou GehrigHe means way more beyond baseball, but Lou Gehrig was also a heck of a baseball player.
3rd! I figured the Iron Horse would be 2nd. .340 lifetime average, 1,995 RBI, ans 2,130 consecutive games played! He averaged 141 runs and 149 RBI per season for his career!!! The numbers blow us away, but it was a crazy era with runs pouring across the plate. I don’t want to belittle him in x any way, big it is what it is. Runs were abundant… |
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Post by azbob643 on Feb 5, 2024 22:53:25 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #2 Mickey MantleAs a player, the Mick’s achievements transcend all eras and put him right up there with the very best players in history. The legend, however, endured his fair share of suffering and pain in his life.
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Post by azbob643 on Feb 5, 2024 22:56:23 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #2 Mickey Mantle
Mantle on the right, Maris to the left…
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Post by azbob643 on Feb 5, 2024 23:00:15 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #2 Mickey Mantle
 
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Post by inger on Feb 6, 2024 0:05:27 GMT -5
I knew about the house, but this is the first I’ve known about the statue. If I’m ever heading east again, I’m going to reroute myself enough to stop there…
I wax disappointed with the statue of Jack Dempsey at his museum in Manassa, CO. He was standing atop a 24” or so block and still shorter than me. I felt like whooping him…🤓
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Post by inger on Feb 6, 2024 0:07:23 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #2 Mickey MantleAs a player, the Mick’s achievements transcend all eras and put him right up there with the very best players in history. The legend, however, endured his fair share of suffering and pain in his life.
Don’t criticize the old man. At least he splurged. For that matter at least you had one… |
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Post by kaybli on Feb 6, 2024 1:41:53 GMT -5
Priceless pics azbob!
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Post by bomberhojoe on Feb 6, 2024 10:42:00 GMT -5
3rd! I figured the Iron Horse would be 2nd. .340 lifetime average, 1,995 RBI, ans 2,130 consecutive games played! He averaged 141 runs and 149 RBI per season for his career!!! The numbers blow us away, but it was a crazy era with runs pouring across the plate. I don’t want to belittle him in x any way, big it is what it is. Runs were abundant… I get your point; however, he finished top 3 in MVP voting 9 times in his career and was top 5 in RBI 9 times as well. I am no way trying to take away from Mantle, who was one of the all-time greats in MLB and there's a good argument that they could be 2 and 3 in either order. BTW, Mickey finished top 5 in MVP voting 9 times in his career. |
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Post by kaybli on Feb 6, 2024 20:27:10 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #1 Babe RuthThe greatest of all time.
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Post by inger on Feb 6, 2024 21:23:28 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #1 Babe RuthThe greatest of all time.
I was expecting a two way tie between Tony and Dooley Womack for # 1. Am I surprised ! … |
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Post by pippsheadache on Feb 7, 2024 9:11:00 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #1 Babe RuthThe greatest of all time.
It could not have been easy to write such an eloquent essay on someone like The Babe. You figure everything that could be said about him has already been written. But Joshua Deimert, who I generally do not like for being so full of himself, hit a Ruthian blast with this one. And timing it for his birthday brought a bit of mist to the eyes. The Great Bambino. By a million miles the most important Yankee ever. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Feb 7, 2024 9:16:37 GMT -5
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #2 Mickey Mantle
Those are classic Bob. A serious tip of the topper on those game photos to you on those. I don't know why it didn't occur to me to bring a camera to the game more often. And just when I thought my bucket list was finis, you have added The Mick's home to it. Kind of similar to Elvis's humble birthplace in Tupelo. Great stuff. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Feb 7, 2024 9:55:07 GMT -5
The numbers blow us away, but it was a crazy era with runs pouring across the plate. I don’t want to belittle him in x any way, big it is what it is. Runs were abundant… I get your point; however, he finished top 3 in MVP voting 9 times in his career and was top 5 in RBI 9 times as well. I am no way trying to take away from Mantle, who was one of the all-time greats in MLB and there's a good argument that they could be 2 and 3 in either order. BTW, Mickey finished top 5 in MVP voting 9 times in his career. Before he became a Red Sox contractor, Bill James used to insist that Mantle could credibly have won ten MVP awards. He also used to say, in his early days when his insights were so refreshing and changed the way many of us looked at baseball, that Mick in his prime was easily superior to Willie Mays. He would never say that now, and inarguably over the course of his career you have to go with Willie, but Mick at his zenith was unimaginably great. |
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