i can prolly do 3 of these for every sport!
Stros
1. Nolan Ryan (greatest of all time)
2. Biggio (always gave 100%)
3. Berkman (Fat Elvis) (Big Puma)
HM Bags
Thanks for reminding me of Dewey Evans-he certainly would be right up there with the guys I mentioned-a true professional and a very good and dedicated player in every sense of the words.
YANKEES!!!
1. Paul O'neill (always played the game the way it is supposed to be)
2. David Cone (NAILS... BIG game pitcher... always found a way to do more with less)
3. Donnie Baseball (was the franchise during my youth when we were terrible year after year)
I didn't specify when I started in the thread that you couldn't change your mind.
Since the poll is about favorite players, by my way of thinking it means you should like them also.
With this is mind, I am going to change my #3 vote from Pedro Martinez to NOMAR, who until the last few months was always one of my favorite players and switch Pedro to honorable mention with Manny.
Since we have a poster by the name of Mighty Mouse, here is a trivia question for any old timer who has been following baseball like myself since the fifties:
What baseball player had the nickname "Mighty Mouse?"
Hint-he played for the Red Sox for the most part, and was quite mediocre even though his nickname would suggest he was better and retired in the early 60's.
I didn't specify when I started in the thread that you couldn't change your mind.
Since the poll is about favorite players, by my way of thinking it means you should like them also.
With this is mind, I am going to change my #3 vote from Pedro Martinez to NOMAR, who until the last few months was always one of my favorite players and switch Pedro to honorable mention with Manny.
Since we have a poster by the name of Mighty Mouse, here is a trivia question for any old timer who has been following baseball like myself since the fifties:
What baseball player had the nickname "Mighty Mouse?"
Hint-he played for the Red Sox for the most part, and was quite mediocre even though his nickname would suggest he was better and retired in the early 60's.
Since we have a poster by the name of Mighty Mouse, here is a trivia question for any old timer who has been following baseball like myself since the fifties:
What baseball player had the nickname "Mighty Mouse?"
Hint-he played for the Red Sox for the most part, and was quite mediocre even though his nickname would suggest he was better and retired in the early 60's.
For anyone interested, the name of player is Billy Klaus, an infielder who played for about three seasons for the Red Sox.
He was built along the lines of Dustin Pedroia and derived his nickname Mighty Mouse from the fact that he came up with some timely extra base hits including some home runs during those seasons, which were not expected since he was small sizewise.
The alliteration of the name was catchy and thus he became known as Mighty Mouse Billy Klaus(which of course many pronounced as Clouse).
ps Mighty Mouse was a comic strip and cartoon character from that era.
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