Some dude asked me that once. . .“without thinking, who is your favorite baseball player ever?”
Rickey Henderson. (I thought up the question today for the obvious reason)
Yours?
Tug McGraw.
Josh Paul.
… what?
Brooks Robinson. Poetry in motion.
Ron Cey. What a runner!
Ryne Sandberg.
Nolan Ryan. Greatest. Pitcher. Ever.
And a helluva nice guy.
Manny Ramirez
Eddie Murray.
Me too. I believe in the Frozen Snowball Theory.
Tom Seaver.
Kirby Puckett
Keith Hernandez
Kirk Gibson
Nolan Ryan made it to the top of my list the day that Ricky Henderson broke Lou Brock’s stolen base record. Henderson was awfully full of himself that day, I think he said something like “Today I am the greatest”… and later that day Ryan went out and threw a no-hitter, something like the fifth or sixth of his career. Heh.
Rob Deer.
Thurman Munson.
Ichiro. Before him, Joe Shlabotnik.
Smoltz.
Dave Johnson