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Post by pippsheadache on Feb 7, 2024 10:19:16 GMT -5
I should add the following in order better to explain my dislike of some of these rankings (e.g., the Gardner one esp.) and just disagreement with the last one (Jeter over DiMaggio). (I don't much like O'Neill b/c of his publicly known extracurricular or non-baseball preference, but still would rank him where Pinstripe's do as a Yankee player.)
This is still a great list because of the detailed writeups on the players. There's some interesting stuff in these articles. Yep. Not easy to do, and they put together a lot of good write-ups. And I think they got things basically correct. I probably would have shuffled around some of the Top Ten, but I believe they got the right guys in there. |
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Post by azbob643 on Feb 7, 2024 10:26:08 GMT -5
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. The game pics are actually photos taken with my phone of prints that were made from slides…essentially 3rd generation copies, under glass. They’re in frames on my office wall, which is why the quality is so low…reflections off the glass. The original prints are much better. Last year my wife and I took a little road trip up the coast from Tampa-St. Pete to Charleston after catching the Yanks-Rays series at The Trop. I’m a bit of a history buff, so I wanted to visit the forts along the southeast coast from St. Augustine (Castillo de San Marcos) thru to Charleston (Ft. Sumter). One morning at breakfast we struck up a conversation with one of the locals…really nice guy. My wife said to him that she had wanted to check out Savannah & Charleston for some time to finish her bucket list. He told her she needed to add more things to the list… |
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Post by azbob643 on Feb 7, 2024 10:28:49 GMT -5
Don’t criticize the old man. At least he splurged. For that matter at least you had one… Not critical at all. I come from a very blue collar, lower middle-class family. Any trip to YS was a treat, regardless of where we sat…usually bleachers ($.75) or general admission ($1.50). I can still smell the cigarette smoke and stale beer. |
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Post by inger on Feb 7, 2024 10:39:12 GMT -5
Don’t criticize the old man. At least he splurged. For that matter at least you had one… Not critical at all. I come from a very blue collar, lower middle-class family. Any trip to YS was a treat, regardless of where we sat…usually bleachers ($.75) or general admission ($1.50). I can still smell the cigarette smoke and stale beer. I come from a dirty collar upbringing in the lower poverty stricken class. The last among my class mates to not yet have an indoor bathroom. Lots of beans eaten…🤓 The only time I was taken to a ball game as a lad, my neighbor took me along with his boys when I was about 10. Naw, I didn’t feel you were really critical of your pops… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Feb 7, 2024 10:47:39 GMT -5
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. The game pics are actually photos taken with my phone of prints that were made from slides…essentially 3rd generation copies, under glass. They’re in frames on my office wall, which is why the quality is so low…reflections off the glass. The original prints are much better. Last year my wife and I took a little road trip up the coast from Tampa-St. Pete to Charleston after catching the Yanks-Rays series at The Trop. I’m a bit of a history buff, so I wanted to visit the forts along the southeast coast from St. Augustine (Castillo de San Marcos) thru to Charleston (Ft. Sumter). One morning at breakfast we struck up a conversation with one of the locals…really nice guy. My wife said to him that she had wanted to check out Savannah & Charleston for some time to finish her bucket list. He told her she needed to add more things to the list… Well they were very evocative photos. Felt like 1962 for sure. I like those same forts. Still need Fort Jefferson off the Keys. A bit of a trophy destination. We went to some great ones around Mobile Bay and Pensacola last winter. Thumbs up on Charleston and Savannah. I've been to both many times and they remain among my favorite US cities. Jekyll Island is also very cool if you’re in the area. |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Feb 7, 2024 22:18:24 GMT -5
You have wonder what Mickey's Yankees playing career would have turn out, if Joe DiMaggio would have yelled out "take the ball Mick!" in the 1951 World Series. Yogi Berra had said that the fly ball was hit towards Mickey, not Joe. But when again Joe was selfish at times.
At Fenway Park during the beginning the 1951 AL season, Joe and Mickey were standing with Ted Williams before the teams took batting practice, Joe didn't say anything and just walked away from them. Williams had introduced himself to Mickey and they just started talking baseball.
Clipper 1952 Yankees Player Photo
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Post by grandforks on Feb 8, 2024 16:09:28 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. Thank goodness for the SABR bios, because the staff probably wouldn’t have made it through their series without them. It is kind of like earlier generations that used the encyclopedia to write reports in grade school. Re-arrange the words, and you are good to go. And you were right. Definitely a different group of people over there. A company that produces pacifiers could really up their profits if they advertised on that site. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Feb 9, 2024 0:55:16 GMT -5
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. Thank goodness for the SABR bios, because the staff probably wouldn’t have made it through their series without them. It is kind of like earlier generations that used the encyclopedia to write reports in grade school. Re-arrange the words, and you are good to go. And you were right. Definitely a different group of people over there. A company that produces pacifiers could really up their profits if they advertised on that site. Wow, I wasn't aware of that GForks. Maybe I was giving too much credit. I agree that too many on that site are very disagreeable and have a moral arrogance in their arguments. Some intelligent posters, but a Party Line you adhere to unless you want to be hounded off, as I noticed several thoughtful posters were. |
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Post by grandforks on Feb 9, 2024 1:44:57 GMT -5
Thank goodness for the SABR bios, because the staff probably wouldn’t have made it through their series without them. It is kind of like earlier generations that used the encyclopedia to write reports in grade school. Re-arrange the words, and you are good to go. And you were right. Definitely a different group of people over there. A company that produces pacifiers could really up their profits if they advertised on that site. Wow, I wasn't aware of that GForks. Maybe I was giving too much credit. I agree that too many on that site are very disagreeable and have a moral arrogance in their arguments. Some intelligent posters, but a Party Line you adhere to unless you want to be hounded off, as I noticed several thoughtful posters were. The Feb. 6 ending was pretty cool, though. |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Feb 13, 2024 18:12:35 GMT -5
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. Thank goodness for the SABR bios, because the staff probably wouldn’t have made it through their series without them. It is kind of like earlier generations that used the encyclopedia to write reports in grade school. Re-arrange the words, and you are good to go. And you were right. Definitely a different group of people over there. A company that produces pacifiers could really up their profits if they advertised on that site. I used the SABR bios, but I still cross reference them with other baseball sources. I have found mistakes published that should have been caught before the article was published. Clipper |
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Post by donniebaseball23 on Feb 25, 2024 23:35:29 GMT -5
Biden just made it illegal to stockpile animal antibiotics. And he’s snatching away your access to prescription drugs too. Without them, you'll have no way to survive when the healthcare system collapses and medication is nowhere to be found. Which could be as soon as next week in your area. >> The Only Way To Protect Your Health Now Is To Follow These Simple Steps Here: prml.ink/gCjkd << Thanks and regards Jacqueline Yeah, but should the Yankees sign Blake Snell? |
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Post by inger on Feb 26, 2024 0:29:24 GMT -5
Biden just made it illegal to stockpile animal antibiotics. And he’s snatching away your access to prescription drugs too. Without them, you'll have no way to survive when the healthcare system collapses and medication is nowhere to be found. Which could be as soon as next week in your area. >> The Only Way To Protect Your Health Now Is To Follow These Simple Steps Here: prml.ink/gCjkd << Thanks and regards Jacqueline Yeah, but should the Yankees sign Blake Snell? 😂 I’m concerned that I may have hoof and mouth disease and she had to bring this to my attention… |
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Post by inger on Oct 29, 2024 7:54:55 GMT -5
This thread needed a bump…
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Post by chiyankee on Nov 1, 2024 15:11:07 GMT -5
This thread needed a bump… One positive about the now offseason, I can catchup on the articles I missed during the season. |
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