What I would pick as best player and my favorite card image of them:
Pitcher: Spahn (1954 Johnston Cookies)
Catcher: Berra (1950 Bowman)
1st Base: Musial (1953 Bowman)
2nd Base: Morgan (1966 Topps)
SS: Banks (1956 Topps)
3rd Base: Mathews (1953 Topps)
LF: Williams (Red Man's)
CF: Mays (1953 Topps)
RF: Aaron (1956 Topps)
Pitcher has many excellent candidates. Ford, Marichal, Gibson, even Roberts Roberts. Seaver loses some playing time with the era cutoff but is a good choices anyways. I think Spahn produced the most total value during this period
Bench or Berra is close, I give it to Berra because Berra was remarkably consistent and excellent. Bench had some great years mixed with some pretty poor ones.
McCovey is awfully close to post-war only Musial.
Jackie has the hype, Morgan the stat line. Robinson was a great player but I don't see his actual career value as #1 here.
I don't think there's much of any real competition for SS.
Schmidt was greater than Mathews overall, but I don't see a way to give it to Schmidt if we have a 1980 cutoff. From 1946-1980 only, Mathews has a much better stat line.
The outfield is easy. Shame to leave off Mickey Mantle, but each of the 3 seems pretty clear, even with Williams missed playing time.
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