# Snap answer to this: "who's your favorite baseball player ever?"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 12, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snap-answer-to-this-whos-your-favorite-baseball-player-ever/411499 "2007-07-12T14:34:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snap-answer-to-this-whos-your-favorite-baseball-player-ever/411499/141 "2007-07-17T12:52:58Z")

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No votes for Honus Wagner?

I’m not much of a baseball person, but I’d probably vote for Paul Molitor

Brian

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snap-answer-to-this-whos-your-favorite-baseball-player-ever/411499/142 "2007-07-17T12:53:24Z")

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[QUOTE=spoke-]  
Actually, I shouldn’t imply that Maddux never does anything off the field. As I understand it, he has always been quite active with charity work – _in Las Vegas_. (Not so much in Atlanta.) So I don’t think he’s a bad guy.

I just think that when a city worships a sports hero (as Atlanta worshiped Maddux back in the day) it would be nice if that sports hero reciprocated in some way.  
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He won three Cy Youngs and a WS. What more do we need? 😕

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**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snap-answer-to-this-whos-your-favorite-baseball-player-ever/411499/143 "2007-07-17T13:45:08Z")

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[QUOTE=spoke-]  
Really interesting that we’re three pages in and no one has even mentioned **Babe Ruth**. (Except in the context of him being struck out by a girl.)

Poor **Babe**. Taken for granted.  
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I was thinking the same thing myself. And even after bringing him to people’s attention, he’s apparently nobody’s favorite. ☹

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