make your baseball team by the decades

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Heres a fun game if anyone else wants to try.There are 14 different decades of major league baseball,so you have to make a team using one player per decade.Rules are you have to have one starter at each positionm2 reserve fielders and 4 man rotation.If a guy played one game in a certain decade then you can put him on the team for that decade.

It would be interesting to see what different kind of teams people come up with.Heres mine and you'll notice that some players decades can be interchangeable

example; My catcher is Carlton Fisk,hes my favorite all-time player so its an obvious choice for me.I chose Willie Mays as my 60s rep but since both he and Fisk played in both decades they can be listed as either.Same goes for Schmidt and Fisk,Bonds and Clemens,Mays and Williams,Mathewson and Johnson.Hopefully you see my point now

Anyway heres my team
c fisk 1970s
1b foxx 1940s
2b hornsby 1930s
ss wagner 1890s
3b schmidt 1980s
of ruth 1920s
of mays 1960s
of williams 1950s
res anson 1880s
res bonds 2000s
p johnson 1900s
p mathewson 1910s
p spalding 1870s
p clemens 1990s

2 choices who were left off my team because of the decades squeeze are Gehrig and Cobb.I almost used Anson as my 1870s player but Spalding was just so dominat and a good hitter that i couldnt put any of the great 1880s pitchers ahead of him

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Posted By: Rob L

Here it goes...

c - Johnny Bench - 1970s
1st - Lou Gehrig - 1930s
2nd - Bid McPhee - 1880s
3rd - Brooks Robinson - 1960s
ss - Arky Vaughn - 1940s
of - Babe Ruth - 1920s
of - Vladimir Guerrero - 2000s
of - Mickey Mantle - 1950s
p - Walter Johnson - 1910s
p - Cy Young - 1890s
p - Christy Mathewson - 1900s
p - Randy Johnson - 1980s
res - Mark McGwire - 1990s
res - Jim O'Rourke - 1870s

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Posted By: runscott

c - Johnny Bench 1970's
1b - Lou Gehrig 1930's
2b - Nap Lajoie 1900's
3b - George Brett 1980's
ss - Honus Wagner 1890's
lf - Babe Ruth 1920's
cf - Ty Cobb 1910's
rf - Ted Williams 1940's
res - Ed Delahanty 1880's
res - Mickey Mantle 1950's
p - Bob Gibson 1960's
p - Nolan Ryan 1990's
p - John Montgomery Ward 1870's
p - Roger Clemens 2000's

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Posted By: J Levine

Okay...seems a little easy...here is mine using only Phillies players..

C Jack Clements 1880s
1B Jim Thome 2000s
2B Nap Lajoie 1900s
3B Mike Schmidt 1970s
SS Granny Hamner 1940s
OF Ed Delahanty 1890s
OF Lefty O'Doul 1920s
OF Chuck Klein 1930s
P Jim Bunning 1960s
P Robin Roberts 1950s
P Grover Alexander 1910s
P Steve Carlton 1980s

Hamner and Clements are tough...with the exception of them and Thome, all are in the HOF...Clements should be...a full time left handed catcher, he held the record for games caught for nearly 70 years...Hamner was not bad esp. in 1949 and 1950...Lajoie did play second base for the Phils for a short time in the early part of the 1900s so that was a little stretch...interesting to see other originals clubs used.

Joshua

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Posted By: PASJD

1880's Cap Anson (res)
1890's Cy Young P
1900's Ty Cobb OF
1910's Walter Johnson P
1920's Babe Ruth OF
1930's Lou Gehrig 1B
1940's Jackie Robinson 2B
1950's Willie Mays OF
1960's Sandy Koufax P
1970's George Brett 3B
1980's Johnny Bench C
1990's Ozzie Smith SS
2000's Roger Clemens P
1870's forget it

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Posted By: john/z28jd

well i might as well try it with my favorite team too

c Jason Kendall 2000's
1b Stargell 80's
2b Mazeroski 70's
ss Wagner 1890's
3b Traynor 30's
of Clemente 60s
of P Waner 40's
of Bonds 90's
res Carey 20's
p Galvin 1880's
p Phillippe 1900's
p Adams 1910's
p Elroy Face 50's

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Posted By: mike

1870s Anson RES
1880s King Kelly OF
1890s Clark Griffith P
1900s Brown P
1910s Hippo Vaughn P
1920s Hack Wilson OF
1930s Harnett C
1940s Cavarretta 1B
1950s Banks SS
1960s Santo 3B
1970s Jenkins P
1980s Sandberg 2B
1990s Sosa OF
2000s Alou RES

Manager Chance RES

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Posted By: Andy Baran

C FISK 1970'S
1B FOXX 1930'S
2B DOERR 1940'S
SS GARCIAPARRA 2000'S
3B BOGGS 1990'S
OF SPEAKER 1900'S
0F WILLIAMS 1950'S
OF YAZ 1960'S
RES KING KELLY 1880'S
RES JIM RICE 1980'S
P AL SPALDING 1870'S
P KID NICHOLS 1890'S
P BABE RUTH 1910'S
P HERB PENNOCK 1920'S

(Title edited to make Julie happy)

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Posted By: Julie

in which case, whatever they called themselves, they're not the Red Sox.

I meant ME opening mouth, inserting foot, not Andy...

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Andy made good use of the rules using 19 century Boston players(Spalding and Kelly too obviously) so he can close his "moput6h"

Why dont you pick a team instead of being critical

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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

Here's a Non-Major League all-time team. All were chosen for their non-major league careers. Only two (Suzuki and Guerrero) played in the majors:


P:George Stovey (Negro Leagues)1880s
P:Smokey Joe Williams (Negro Leagues)1910s
P:Satchel Paige (Negro Leagues)1960s
P:Willie Foster (Negro Leagues)1920s
Reserve:Grant "Home Run" Johnson (Negro Leagues)1890s
Reserve:Sadaharu Oh (Japan)1970s
C:Josh Gibson (Negro Leagues)1940s
1b:Buck Leonard (Negro Leagues)1950s
2b:Bud Fowler (Negro Leagues)1870s
SS:Pop Lloyd (Negro Leagues)1900s
3b:Omar Linares (Cuba)1980s
OF:Oscar Charleston (Negro Leagues)1930s
OF:Ichiro Suzuki (Japan)1990s
OF:Vladimir Guerrero (Dominican)2000s


-Ryan

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Posted By: Peter Thomas

Ryan - I like your team, but would add that Page did also make it to the majors, although shamefully late.

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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

Peter,

Yes, I must have overlooked him when I glanced to see who'd played in the Majors.

I actually used his Major League experience for the A's in 1965 to qualify him in the 1960's category. He's obviously better known for his Indians and Browns years, though.

-Ryan

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Posted By: Julie

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

John:

Great idea and it's harder than it seems!

First Base - Cap Anson (1870s)
Second Base - Bid McPhee (1880s)
Third Base - Mike Schmidt (1980s)
Shortstop - Honus Wagner (1890s)
Left Field - Stan Musial (1940s)
Center Field - Ty Cobb (1910s)
Right Field - Hank Aaron (1970s)
Catcher - Yogi Berra (1950s)
Pitcher - Babe Ruth (1930s)
Pitcher - Cy Young (1900s)
Pitcher - Walter Johnson (1920s)
Pitcher - Nolan Ryan (1990s)
Sub - Willie Mays (1960s)
Sub - Barry Bonds (2000s)

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Posted By: dennis

First Base - Cap Anson (1870s)
Second Base - ryne sandberg (1980s)
Third Base - ron santo (1970s)
Shortstop - ernie banks (1950s)
Left Field - billy williams (1960s)
Center Field - hack wilson (1920s)
Right Field - ki ki cuyler (1930s)
Catcher - johnny kling (1900s)
Pitcher - greg maddux(1990s)
Pitcher - mark prior (2000s)
Pitcher -john clarkson (1880s)
Pitcher - clark griffith (1890s)
Sub joe tinker (1910s)
Sub - phil cavaretta (1940s)

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Posted By: Julie

1B Anson 1870s
2B Robinson(J) 1940s
3B Robinson, B. 1970s
p. W. Johnson 1920s
p. Koufax 1960s
p. Clemens 1990s
p. Mathewson, 1900s
c. Buck Ewing 1880s
of: Cobb 1910s />
of: Ruth 1930s
of: Mays 1950s
ss: Wagner 1890s
res. Bonds 2000s
res. O Smith 1980s.

I fixed it! And NOBODY is listed for a time in which he was not excellent; Ruth continued to play excellently into the '30s. Wagner was great from the time he came up in '97. And I don't have to tell anybody about Mathewson...

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

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