The Hall of Fame of Uniform Numbers

[Peter_Spaeth]

and I cheated because I just couldn't think of any
and for good reason it turns out

48 rick rueuschel
57 johan satana

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

and I cheated because I just couldn't think of any
and for good reason it turns out

48 rick rueuschel
57 johan satana

And you misspelled both of them.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

And you misspelled both of them.

So it goes.

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

So it goes.

I hold you to a very high standard Peter.

[bobbvc]

Ted Williams at #9. This is a vintage Baseball forum after all.

[bobbvc]

And for that matter, Jim Bouton at #56.

[Peter_Spaeth]

After Ted Williams, Bouton is definitely the next guy that came to mind.

[the 'stache]

Frank spoke with me this morning, and brought up Joe DiMaggio's home run per strikeout rate, which I had completely overlooked while putting together the information to support my assertion that DiMaggio was in fact the greatest offensive center fielder in the modern baseball era. While Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak is, in my opinion, the single greatest individual accomplishment in the history of American sports, his career home run to strikeout ratio is one of the most overlooked career accomplishments, certainly in baseball. DiMaggio's career numbers suffer from three full seasons lost to military service. But while he did play, he was a superstar, an elite hitter on par with Gehrig and Babe Ruth before him. And while Ruth and Gehrig both had an outstanding home run per strikeout rate, nobody in the game's history has combined power discipline at the plate quite as well as DiMaggio.

There have been 91 hitters in Major League history to amass 350 or more home runs during their playing careers. I had Baseball Reference generate a list of those players, which I imported into Excel. I then sorted the players to show who had the best Home run per strikeout rate in Major League History among power hitters. Joltin' Joe was at the very top of the list. He hit 361 home runs while only striking out 369 times. I feel very safe in saying that I don't ever see this mark by DiMaggio ever being bested.

[Peter_Spaeth]

95 Richard Dent
and 90 the great Julius Peppers

[TUM301]

867-5309 !!

[markf31]

#90 Neil Smith
#93 Doug Gilmour
#94 Charles Haley
#95 Richard Dent
#96 Tomas Holmstrom
#97 Cornelius Bennett

[Butch7999]

new moninees for
1 - Jacques Plante (NHL) - six nominees already for 1, so explanation/argument now required:
... Hockey HOF, multiple Cup champion, career stats among very best of all time (miles better than Sawchuk, e.g.), innovator at position
2 - Tim Horton (NHL) -- could also enter with 7 or 24, but too many nominees there, so 2, his late-career number
10 - Pele (soccer) -- explanation needed again -- seriously? No other nominations for greatest footballer of all time?
34 - Thurman Thomas (NFL)
39 - Dominik Hasek (NHL) -- what Orr was to defencemen and Gretzky was to forwards, Hasek was to goalies
-- by any stat, light years beyond any other goalie of past 60 years
67 - Kent Hull (NFL)
78 - Bruce Smith (NFL)
79 - Ron McDole (AFL/NFL) -- should be for 72, his best years, but no other nominees at 79, his late-career number
89 - Steve Tasker (NFL)

redundant votes for
3 - the Babe (MLB)
4 - Orr (NHL)
8 - Yogi (MLB)
24 - Mays (MLB)
45 - Gibson (MLB)
66 - Lemieux (NHL)
68 - Jagr (NHL)
77 - Esposito (NHL) -- should be for 7, but too many nominees there, so 77, his late-career number
83 - Andre Reed (NFL)
99 - Gretzky (NHL)

[clydepepper]

MLB

3-Killebrew, B.Terry
4-Kiner
5-Greenberg, Bagwell
6-Oliva
7-Biggio
9-Minoso
11-Aparicio
23-Sandberg
27-Catfish Hunter
32-Steve Carlton
34-Puckett

NFL

10-Tarkenton
12-Jim Kelly
66-Ray Nitschke

NBA

7-Maravich
12-Stockton
21-D.Wilkins
22-Baylor
24-Moses Malone
32-Dr. J & McHale
34-Olajuwon & Barkley
44-Jerry West

[Peter_Spaeth]

60 Otto Graham

[Peter_Spaeth]

73 John Hannah how did I forget that one.

[Tabe]

Man, even when honored, Sergei gets dissed. It's Fedorov, not Federov

And I his nomination for 91.

[drmondobueno]

3 Harmon Killebrew. Power nonstop
7. The Mick, nuff said
8. Yogi Berra. How many rings, ten?
9. Roger Maris. Deserves mention if for no other reason he did what Ruth did not, by one...
16. Marcel Dionne, as smooth and consistent a hockey player. Too bad he played on lousy teams. Really lousy teams. Ask this question. Brett hull, a one dimensional scoring machine versus a center, Dionne who made his wingers look like HOFers. Until Gretzky came along, Dionne pounded the assists like no one else in hockey. If no one else agrees with me, fine. Dionne was number two in league scoring at his retirement, behind some guy named Howe. Nuff said. You are wrong, Dionne is RIGHT.
21. Clemente, bar none
32. Steve Carlton. Lefty.
74. Merlin Olson
75. Deacon Jones
85. Jack Youngblood.
99. The Great One, Wayne Gretzky
-- Ty Cobb. Gotta be on this list