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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Greatest Players From The First 150 Years of Baseball

The 1970 Rold Gold cards celebrated the 1969 Greatest Baseball Players during the first 100 years of baseball.  Almost 50 years later, I hope that someone comes up with a new set next year to celebrate a new team.

I think that the team should be a 25-card 3-D set.  Eight positions can be represented twice each (16).  Then add four pitchers (2 starters and 2 relievers) and five wild-card selections. 

Based on the top 100 baseball players of all-time as rated by ESPN.

OF - Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, Ted Williams, Hank Aaron, Ty Cobb
SS - Honus Wagner, Alex Rodriguez
3B - Mike Schmidt, George Brett
2B - Rogers Hornsby, Joe Morgan
1B - Stan Musial, Lou Gehrig
C   - Johnny Bench, Yogi Berra
P   - Roger Clemens, Walter Johnson, Greg Maddux, Cy Young, Randy Johnson, Tom Seaver
Misc - Mickey Mantle, Rickey Henderson, Joe DiMaggio

No relief pitchers were rated high enough on ESPN to warrant inclusion here.

Baseball Almanac - I will check that out next time. 


1 comment:

  1. If Kellogg's did this, I'd be the best marketing move ever. I'd be all over those cereal boxes.

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