# SDMB Baseball Hall of Fame vote #2: First Basemen **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [July 29, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034 "2008-07-29T02:16:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/1 "2008-07-29T02:16:19Z")
We’ve elected ten catchers. Now it’s time for first basemen, and this will be a terrific vote with many candidates! The rules are the same; Please name ten first basemen (in no particular order) who you think we should name to the SDMB Baseball Hall of Fame. Active players and players ineligible for election to Cooperstown are eligible; there are no restrictions. Below I have provided a list of all Hall of Fame first basemen as well as many other first basemen who might merit consideration; **this list is provided for your convenience. It is not a restricted ballot. You can vote for players I have not mentioned if you wish.** Please note we will be having ballots for Negro League stars in another thread. You may vote for less than ten if you wish but please vote for ten if you can. **The ten players with the most votes shall be immediately inducted into the SDMB Hall of Fame.** There is no minimum percentage of votes needed; the top ten are in. A few notes before I post the list. A class of player I’m struggling with are multi-position players; I am not sure where to put them. I’m thinking, specifically, of players who didn’t play a majority of their games at one position (Pete Rose, Paul Molitor) and players who were mostly DHs (Edgar, Harold Baines.) Comments are welcome. Here - again, solely for your convenience, please feel free to vote for people not on this list - is a list of top first basemen: Lou Gehrig Rudy May Albert Pujols Jimmie Foxx Roger Connor Willie McCovey Kent Hrbek Roy Sievers Jack Clark Jack Fournier Hank Greenberg Harmon Killebrew Jim Bottomley Frank McCormick Bob Watson Tino Martinez Jason Giambi Jake Beckley Eddie Murray Mark McGwire Rod Carew Cecil Fielder Rafael Palmeiro Jeff Bagwell John Mayberry Don Mattingly Wally Joyner Jim Thome Steve Garvey George Kelly Jake Daubert George Sisler Dick Allen Todd Helton Bill Buckner John Olerud Cap Anson Dan Brouthers Johnny Mize Frank Thomas (The Big Hurt) Will Clark Boog Powell Tony Perez Bill Skowron Keith Hernandez Gil Hodges Orlando Cepeda Vic Power Frank Chance Norm Cash Mark Grace George Scott Bill Terry Andres Galarraga Chris Chambliss Mickey Vernon Mike Hargrove Mo Vaughn Fred McGriff Hal Chase Carlos Delgado Joe Adcock Dolf Camilli Cecil Cooper Bill White Charlie Grimm Voting closes midnight Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/2 "2008-07-29T02:43:52Z")
Again, in no particular order: Lou Gehrig Eddie Murray Jimmie Foxx Hank Greenberg Frank Thomas (The Big Hurt) Jeff Bagwell Cap Anson George Sisler Rod Carew Harmon Killebrew ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/3 "2008-07-29T02:52:49Z")
**Lou Gehrig** : _He clearly stands at the top of this list!_ Jimmie Foxx : _Great offensive star_ Cap Anson \*Can’t leave Cap off this list. \* Hank Greenberg: _A truly great player_. Eddie Murray: _A great player, a great switch hitter and a very good glove. \* Keith Hernandez: \* a good offensive player and a great fielder._ Bill Terry: \*A great player and from what I heard he had a very good glove. He was also apparently a team leader. His lifetime .341 BA speaks volumes. \* Dan Brouthers: \*I will include him as the second best 1B of the 1800s. \* George Sisler: \*His numbers are close to Terry, but I know less about him.\*Willie McCovey: \*The great McCovey rounds out my top 10. \* Sorry Rod Carew, maybe at 2B. You were far more valuable at 2nd than at 1st. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/4 "2008-07-29T03:15:28Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] **Lou Gehrig** : _He clearly stands at the top of this list!_ Jimmie Foxx : _Great offensive star_ Cap Anson \*Can’t leave Cap off this list. \* Hank Greenberg: _A truly great player_. Eddie Murray: _A great player, a great switch hitter and a very good glove. \* Keith Hernandez: \* a good offensive player and a great fielder._ Bill Terry: \*A great player and from what I heard he had a very good glove. He was also apparently a team leader. His lifetime .341 BA speaks volumes. \* Dan Brouthers: \*I will include him as the second best 1B of the 1800s. \* George Sisler: \*His numbers are close to Terry, but I know less about him.\*Willie McCovey: \*The great McCovey rounds out my top 10. \* Sorry Rod Carew, maybe at 2B. You were far more valuable at 2nd than at 1st. [/QUOTE] You have one more spot on your top ten. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/5 "2008-07-29T03:16:42Z")
Lou Gehrig Jimmie Foxx Hank Greenberg George Sisler Keith Hernandez Orlando Cepeda Frank Chance Bill Terry Harmon Killebrew Albert Pujols ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/6 "2008-07-29T03:16:44Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] You have one more spot on your top ten. [/QUOTE] That’s odd, I had \*\*Willie McCovey \*\* in the last spot. Wait, he is still there, I lost a line break. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/7 "2008-07-29T03:51:28Z")
Jeff Bagwell Jimmy Foxx Lou Gehrig Hank Greenberg Keith Hernandez Gil Hodges Harmon Killebrew Willie McCovey Johnny Mize Frank Thomas ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/8 "2008-07-29T05:19:04Z")
Lou Gehrig Jimmie Foxx Roger Connor Willie McCovey Cap Anson Dan Brouthers Johnny Mize Hank Greenberg Jeff Bagwell Frank Thomas (The Big Hurt) Really tough to leave Killebrew and Murray out. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/9 "2008-07-29T06:57:04Z")
Lou Gehrig Albert Pujols Jimmie Foxx Willie McCovey Hank Greenberg Harmon Killebrew Rod Carew Jeff Bagwell George Sisler Tony Perez Joe ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/10 "2008-07-29T10:07:48Z")
Rudy MAY? ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/11 "2008-07-29T10:33:00Z")
Now that I’m over my shock at a mediocre pitcher appearing somehow on this list, my top 10 1B men, in alphabetical order (oddly imbalanced to the first half of the alphabet): Dick Allen Cap Anson Dan Brouthers Jimmie Foxx Lou Gehrig Hank Greenberg Gil Hodges Harmon Killebrew Johnny Mize George Sisler It seems a good idea to have a “miscellaneous” category, covering multi-position players (I’d include Carew and Allen on that list, possibly Cepeda and Killebrew and others who played elsewhere than first base for parts of their careers). One of the reasons I didn’t vote for Cepeda was his years platooning with McCovey and in the OF. Personally, I’d put anyone on that list who didn’t play over 98% of his career games at a single position (including OF as one position). It would be fun, IMO, to have a large grab-bag category. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/12 "2008-07-29T11:44:37Z")
Lou Gehrig Jimmie Foxx Willie McCovey Hank Greenberg Rod Carew George Sisler Johnny Mize Gil Hodges Frank Chance Bill Terry ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/13 "2008-07-29T12:13:29Z")
Hank Greenberg Rod Carew Eddie Murray Frank Thomas Jimmie Foxx Harmon Killebrew Albert Pujols Dick Allen Willie Stargell Jim Thome ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/14 "2008-07-29T14:04:59Z")
So little love for Frank Thomas… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/15 "2008-07-29T14:09:39Z")
Lou Gehrig Willie McCovey Hank Greenberg Harmon Killebrew Eddie Murray Cecil Fielder Don Mattingly George Sisler Frank Thomas (The Big Hurt) Mo Vaughn ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/16 "2008-07-29T14:13:38Z")
Hmm. Anyone mentioning Stargell ought to save him for the left-field list, when he was younger and wasn’t nagged by injuries. He was moved to first base in 1975, pretty late in his career. Most lists have him as a top ten left fielder, but he doesn’t register as a first baseman - even though he was working first when he had his amazing Series in '79. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/17 "2008-07-29T14:14:53Z")
[QUOTE=Gadarene] So little love for Frank Thomas… ☹ [/QUOTE] But it is an all time list and he just isn’t an all timer. I had a hard time not including Harmon Killebrew, but no matter how much I liked him and how much I love his name, he doesn’t belong and yet he was a better first baseman than Thomas or one of my favorite players like Don Mattingly or Bill ‘Moose’ Skowron. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/18 "2008-07-29T14:25:07Z")
Gehrig Foxx McCovey Greenberg Mize Pujols Bagwell The Big Hurt Murray Terry Honorable mention: Musial, who’ll get in as an OF ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-2-first-basemen/458034/19 "2008-07-29T14:33:27Z")
Lou Gehrig Willie McCovey Hank Greenberg Harmon Killebrew George Sisler Dick Allen Johnny Mize Boog Powell Tony Perez Bill Skowron Orlando Cepeda ---
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