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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 15, 2021 16:07:33 GMT -5
Okay, now for the more fun part. My team of favorites that I have actually seen play irrespective of their performance. Just guys I always rooted a little harder for. No wrong answers. As the lady said, it's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
First Base -- Don Mattingly
Second Base -- Bobby Richardson
Shortstop-- Derek Jeter
Third Base -- Scott Brosius (haha)
OF -- Roger Maris
OF -- Mickey Mantle
OF -- Roy White
Catcher-- Elston Howard
DH -- Bobby Murcer
SP -- Whitey Ford
SP -- Mel Stottlemyre
SP -- Ron Guidry
SP-- Catfish Hunter
SP -- El Duque
On my bench would be Moose Skowron, Willie Randolph, Tony Kubek, Graig Nettles, Tom Tresh, Lou Piniella and Thurman Munson.
Five other pitching slots -- let's go Mo, Bullet Bob Turley, Jim Abbot, Ralph Terry and David Cone.
Just throwing out what popped into my head. Ask me tomorrow and there might be a few changes. It's like trying to name my 20 favorite Beatles songs. Can't be consistent.
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Post by kaybli on Apr 15, 2021 16:12:06 GMT -5
Okay, now for the more fun part. My team of favorites that I have actually seen play irrespective of their performance. Just guys I always rooted a little harder for. No wrong answers. As the lady said, it's my party and I'll cry if I want to. First Base -- Don Mattingly Second Base -- Bobby Richardson Shortstop-- Derek Jeter Third Base -- Scott Brosius (haha) OF -- Roger Maris OF -- Mickey Mantle OF -- Roy White Catcher-- Elston Howard DH -- Bobby Murcer SP -- Whitey Ford SP -- Mel Stottlemyre SP -- Ron Guidry SP-- Catfish Hunter SP -- El Duque On my bench would be Moose Skowron, Willie Randolph, Tony Kubek, Graig Nettles, Tom Tresh, Lou Piniella and Thurman Munson. Five other pitching slots -- let's go Mo, Bullet Bob Turley, Jim Abbot, Ralph Terry and David Cone. Just throwing out what popped into my head. Ask me tomorrow and there might be a few changes. It's like trying to name my 20 favorite Beatles songs. Can't be consistent.  I had Brosius in there too. Maybe just on the strength of his 1998 season and the 2001 WS HR. I was too late for Nettles and I mentioned why no A-Rod, so he's the only one left. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 15, 2021 16:31:54 GMT -5
World Series performance goes a long way with me, so I am sure that influenced me with Brosius. Plus he always seemed to be upbeat. Bobby Richardson was another World Series standout plus a really good guy who never embarrassed the team.
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 15, 2021 17:29:40 GMT -5
World Series performance goes a long way with me, so I am sure that influenced me with Brosius. Plus he always seemed to be upbeat. Bobby Richardson was another World Series standout plus a really good guy who never embarrassed the team. My best Yankee buddy loved Bobby Richardson, and maintained what a wonderfully smooth defensive player he was and a clutch hitter. He said Kubek and Richardson was a fine double-play combination. |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 15, 2021 17:33:20 GMT -5
Like Charlie Keller as a position player, one of the most underrated pitchers for the Yankees was Mel Stottlemyre: 40 shutouts and 152 complete games!
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 15, 2021 19:00:00 GMT -5
Like Charlie Keller as a position player, one of the most underrated pitchers for the Yankees was Mel Stottlemyre: 40 shutouts and 152 complete games! Mel was a wonderful pitcher who had the misfortune to come along in the final months of the Yankee dynasty in 1964 and finish up just before the great teams of the mid 70s. Anybody who was following Yankee baseball in 1964 was a lifelong Mel Stottlemyre fan. He came up in early August at a time when the Yanks were really struggling and went 9-3 down the stretch with a 2.06 ERA. Those are among the very few stats I never have to look up. They never would have won the pennant that year without that completely out of nowhere run. Seems to me he helped himself with the bat a few times too. He had a wicked sinker that would play well today. I believe if he had been around to come up say in 1954 instead of 1964, he could have had a Hall of Fame career. When he was getting razzed for his job as pitching coach by some of the faithful during Joe Torre's reign, you can bet none of the people jeering remembered what he did on the mound. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 15, 2021 19:24:20 GMT -5
World Series performance goes a long way with me, so I am sure that influenced me with Brosius. Plus he always seemed to be upbeat. Bobby Richardson was another World Series standout plus a really good guy who never embarrassed the team. My best Yankee buddy loved Bobby Richardson, and maintained what a wonderfully smooth defensive player he was and a clutch hitter. He said Kubek and Richardson was a fine double-play combination. Other than Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio-- both of whom are in the Hall of Fame-- Richardson and Kubek were the best double play combination of their time. So smooth and graceful. There was a wonderful long ago poster on here named bangbangplay who described Bobby Richardson as "elegant" and I remember thinking "you nailed it." That was the adjective I wanted. Bobby and Tony were All Star regulars, and along with Clete Boyer at third made the left side of the infield an impenetrable wall. We were so spoiled by that. Randolph Dent and Nettles, same thing. Kubek sustained a serious spinal injury while serving in the military in 1962 and was never close to being the same player after that. It ruined his career. When people used to say that Cal Ripken broke the mold by being a tall shortstop, I used to wonder how short their memories were. Kubek was 6'3" and although he did not remotely hit for power like Ripken, he was a more graceful and fluid defender. No question Ripken was a far better overall player, but in that one area of the game Tony held his own. |
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Post by inger on Apr 15, 2021 20:06:12 GMT -5
My best Yankee buddy loved Bobby Richardson, and maintained what a wonderfully smooth defensive player he was and a clutch hitter. He said Kubek and Richardson was a fine double-play combination. Other than Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio-- both of whom are in the Hall of Fame-- Richardson and Kubek were the best double play combination of their time. So smooth and graceful. There was a wonderful long ago poster on here named bangbangplay who described Bobby Richardson as "elegant" and I remember thinking "you nailed it." That was the adjective I wanted. Bobby and Tony were All Star regulars, and along with Clete Boyer at third made the left side of the infield an impenetrable wall. We were so spoiled by that. Randolph Dent and Nettles, same thing. Kubek sustained a serious spinal injury while serving in the military in 1962 and was never close to being the same player after that. It ruined his career. When people used to say that Cal Ripken broke the mold by being a tall shortstop, I used to wonder how short their memories were. Kubek was 6'3" and although he did not remotely hit for power like Ripken, he was a more graceful and fluid defender. No question Ripken was a far better overall player, but in that one area of the game Tony held his own. Ripken is over rated... A good player who had a couple very good seasons. He got to play shortstop instead of 3B, where he truly belonged, which greatly enhanced his reputation. His ego was huge, and he owned that Baltimore clubhouse. Oh... and then there was the record. THAT record. I hated him for breaking it. And he had some help with a game that got cancelled under questionable circumstances... His uncle was my bank President for a few years. I found the Ripkens’ a cantankerous lot... except for Vi, but then she wasn’t blood... (Remember the mysterious Vi Ripken kidnapping?)... |
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Post by kaybli on Apr 15, 2021 20:10:13 GMT -5
Other than Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio-- both of whom are in the Hall of Fame-- Richardson and Kubek were the best double play combination of their time. So smooth and graceful. There was a wonderful long ago poster on here named bangbangplay who described Bobby Richardson as "elegant" and I remember thinking "you nailed it." That was the adjective I wanted. Bobby and Tony were All Star regulars, and along with Clete Boyer at third made the left side of the infield an impenetrable wall. We were so spoiled by that. Randolph Dent and Nettles, same thing. Kubek sustained a serious spinal injury while serving in the military in 1962 and was never close to being the same player after that. It ruined his career. When people used to say that Cal Ripken broke the mold by being a tall shortstop, I used to wonder how short their memories were. Kubek was 6'3" and although he did not remotely hit for power like Ripken, he was a more graceful and fluid defender. No question Ripken was a far better overall player, but in that one area of the game Tony held his own. Ripken is over rated... A good player who had a couple very good seasons. He got to play shortstop instead of 3B, where he truly belonged, which greatly enhanced his reputation. His ego was huge, and he owned that Baltimore clubhouse. Oh... and then there was the record. THAT record. I hated him for breaking it. And he had some help with a game that got cancelled under questionable circumstances... His uncle was my bank President for a few years. I found the Ripkens’ a cantankerous lot... except for Vi, but then she wasn’t blood... (Remember the mysterious Vi Ripken kidnapping?)... Its kind of sacrilegious in the baseball community, but I tend to agree with you. Ripken always rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. |
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Post by inger on Apr 15, 2021 23:02:17 GMT -5
My best Yankee buddy loved Bobby Richardson, and maintained what a wonderfully smooth defensive player he was and a clutch hitter. He said Kubek and Richardson was a fine double-play combination. Other than Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio-- both of whom are in the Hall of Fame-- Richardson and Kubek were the best double play combination of their time. So smooth and graceful. There was a wonderful long ago poster on here named bangbangplay who described Bobby Richardson as "elegant" and I remember thinking "you nailed it." That was the adjective I wanted. Bobby and Tony were All Star regulars, and along with Clete Boyer at third made the left side of the infield an impenetrable wall. We were so spoiled by that. Randolph Dent and Nettles, same thing. Kubek sustained a serious spinal injury while serving in the military in 1962 and was never close to being the same player after that. It ruined his career. When people used to say that Cal Ripken broke the mold by being a tall shortstop, I used to wonder how short their memories were. Kubek was 6'3" and although he did not remotely hit for power like Ripken, he was a more graceful and fluid defender. No question Ripken was a far better overall player, but in that one area of the game Tony held his own. So sorry, but I had actually forgotten bangbangplay. He deserves better. Yep. He was way up the list with people like banfoulballs. We lost them along the way with some other REAL baseball folks. I don’t have recall of specifics, but I know we took on some damage during the steroid era as some were really riled as to how to properly assess players from that era... I think some of the losses came from that, some from the transition from Pinstripes to here... leakage I guess you’d call that... |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 16, 2021 6:41:46 GMT -5
Grandforks was another one. A bit younger than those of us from the Clete Boyer Generation, but he was a scholar of baseball history. He knew as much about 19th century baseball as anyone I ever met.
I sometimes wonder if those guys check in from time to time. I also miss some of the non-US posters like El Maestro and UKYank. Then there was a poster named Miguel who was either posting from Uruguay or Israel or both, I was never sure.
Other than a few like Zen who appeared to have some disturbing issues, I miss all of that gang. Maybe the more Yankee-centric name for the board will lure a few of them back.
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Post by inger on Apr 16, 2021 8:34:37 GMT -5
Grandforks was yet another superstar. We also have realize that some of those gentleman may now be posting with Mr.G and Utahyank...
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Post by inger on Apr 18, 2021 9:16:43 GMT -5
C: Wil Nieves 1B: Andy Phillips 2B: Tony Womack 3B: Eric Duncan SS: Eduardo Nunez LF: Zolio Almonte CF: Ruben Rivera RF: Matt Lawton DH: Jesus Montero P Kei Igawa P Sidney Ponson P Carl Pavano P Hideki Irabu P Esteban Loaiza Remember when Dome was pushing Eduardo Nunez for MVP? 😂 |
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I had Brosius in there too. Maybe just on the strength of his 1998 season and the 2001 WS HR. I was too late for Nettles and I mentioned why no A-Rod, so he's the only one left. 
