Your Best starting nine.........

[OriolesFan]

I thought this might be an interesting thing to do, so please post your BEST (in your opinion) Starting nine baseball team of players who ONLY PLAYED for ONE MLB TEAM their ENTIRE CAREER.

I'll get this started. My choices, of players who'd be my starters and only played for one team their entire career, would be ---

1B - LOU GEHRIG - YANKEES
2B - CHARLEY GEHRINGER - TIGERS
SS - CAL RIPKEN, JR - ORIOLES
3B - BROOKS ROBINSON - ORIOLES
C - JOHNNY BENCH - REDS
OF - TED WILLIAMS - RED SOX
OF - STAN MUSIAL - CARDINALS
OF - MICKEY MANTLE - YANKEES
P - WALTER JOHNSON - SENATORS

So, who would be your starting nine of players who spent their entire MLB career on one team ?

[BHELSER1981]

1B - Lou Gehrig - Yankees
2B - Jackie Robinson - Dodgers
SS - Cal Ripken Jr - Orioles
3B - Mike Schmidt - Phillies (Bat puts him over Brooks IMO)
C - Johnny Bench - Reds
OF - Ted Williams - Red Sox
OF - Roberto Clemente - Pirates (field, bat, off field - has to be on the team!)
OF - Mickey Mantle - Yankees
P - Walter Johnson - Senators (#1 pitcher of all time, regardless of how many teams players played for)

[OriolesFan]

Brandon, very good choices. I even considered Mike Schmidt and Roberto Clemente, with Jackie Robinson as a more distant choice. I choose "Brooksie" over Mike because of his defense (16 gold gloves). Without a doubt though Schmidt was the best hitting third baseman in baseball history. With Musial and Clemente it was a harder decision. Without a doubt Clemente was definitely faster, but Musial's hitting stats put him on my team instead. Clemente and Schmidt would be my back-ups for 3b and OF. THANKS for posting your choices.

[BHELSER1981]

great topic, there are quite a few ways you could go with this, should make for a good discussion

[ac-n-mike]

1B - LOU GEHRIG (Eddie Murray/Jimmie Foxx on the Bench)
2B - JACKIE ROBINSON (Rogers Hornsby/Joe Morgan on the Bench)
SS - CAL RIPKEN, JR (Derek Jeter/Alex Rodriguez on the Bench)
3B - GEORGE BRETT (Brooks Robinson/Mike Schmidt on the Bench)
C - JOHNNY BENCH (Yogi Berra/Carlton Fisk on the Bench)
LF - TED WILLIAMS (Barry Bonds, Rickey Henderson on the Bench)
CF - WILLIE MAYS (Ken Griffey Jr/Ty Cobb on the Bench)
RF - HANK AARON (Mickey Mantle/Roberto Clemente on the Bench)
P - CHRISTY MATHEWSON (Walter Johnson/Cy Young on the Bench)


EDIT: didnt see the "spent their career on ONE team" part of this....

but I beleive most of my STARTING picks still hold ...

[Daqda]

C.Johnny Bench-Reds
1B.Willie Stargell-Pirates
2B.Jackie Robinson-Dodgers
3B.George Brett-Royals
SS.Ernie Banks-Cubs
LF.Ted Williams-Red Sox
CF.Mickey Mantle-Yankees
RF.Joe Dimaggio-Yankees
SP.Jim Palmer-Orioles

[OriolesFan]

ac - n - mike - thanks for posting your choices. However, some DON'T QUALIFY. You posted a few that played for more than ONE team - three of your STARTERS - WILLIE MAYS,HANK AARON, & CHRISTY MAYHEWSON - and many RESERVES (ALL but JETER, 'BROOKSIE",SCHMIDT,MANTLE,CLEMENTE, & JOHNSON). So, who would you replace those three (MAYS,AARON, & MATHEWSON) with (remember - must have played the entire career with one team)?

Daqda - nice line-up. However, as good as some of those were, I'd personally have to use some as reserves. As much as I'm an ORIOLES fan, and PALMER is the BEST pitcher they EVER HAD, there is no way I'd pick him before Walter "BIG TRAIN" JOHNSON (over 400 wins and 100 shutouts, and the 1st to strikeout over 3500 batters) But arguably a very good line-up. THANKS for your post.

[ac-n-mike]

ac - n - mike - thanks for posting your choices. However, some DON'T QUALIFY. You posted a few that played for more than ONE team - three of your STARTERS - WILLIE MAYS,HANK AARON, & CHRISTY MAYHEWSON - and many RESERVES (ALL but JETER, 'BROOKSIE",SCHMIDT,MANTLE,CLEMENTE, & JOHNSON). So, who would you replace those three (MAYS,AARON, & MATHEWSON) with (remember - must have played the entire career with one team)?

and this is why I posted... THIS

EDIT: didnt see the "spent their career on ONE team" part of this....

but I beleive most of my STARTING picks still hold ...

[OriolesFan]

Anyone else have their BEST starting line-up of major league players who played their ENTIRE CAREER with ONE TEAM ????

[OriolesFan]

Still waiting on your BEST starting line-up of major league players who played their ENTIRE CAREER with ONE TEAM !!!!!!!!

[OriolesFan]

Back ttt - anyone else want to post their STARTING NINE (each player must have player his entire career on one(1) MLB team) ?????

[OriolesFan]

Anyone else have a BEST STARTING NINE of players who each spent their entire careers with ONE team ?????

[OriolesFan]

One more time - anyone else out there have a better suggested STARTING NINE, who played their entire careers with one team, than what has already been posted ????????

[OriolesFan]

Well it has been over a month since this was up, just wondering if anyone else wants to post their BEST STARTING NINE of ALL TIME who ONLY PLAYED for ONE TEAM.

[sanjosefuji]

Here are my personal favorites:

C - Kurt Suzuki
1B - Lou Gehrig
2B - Jackie Robinson
SS - Cal Ripken Jr.
3B - Chipper Jones
LF - Ted Williams
CF - Kirby Puckett
RF - Tony Gwynn
LHP - Ron Guidry
RHP - Jim Palmer
RP - Brian Wilson
DH - Ichiro Suzuki (Hey... he's DH'd over 25 times in his career)

LOL... I can't believe I actually have two Yankees on this list... but Gehrig is a legend and I'll always remember him, by the way he was portrayed in Pride of the Yankees... which was as a man with strong "character". And Guidry was a beast from my childhood... I always used him in this baseball game I played back on my Apple IIe.