He may run like Hayes, but he hits like-
um.
Ausmus?
Ron Guidry
My favorite player ever is Lou Gehrig. (Established the corporate/professional image of the Yanks and played the game 100% correct, 100% of the time)
My favorite player from my childhood who I watched play was Thurman Munson. (Was the heart and soul of the Yanks, the first good player as I started watching the Yanks as a little guy and of course Hated the Red Sox more than even the fans did.)
My favorite current player is Derek Jeter. (All class and always plays the game right, not the best player, but my favorite.)
I have a thing for Yankee Captains I guess.
My favorite living player is Yogi Berra. (How can you love baseball and not love Yogi?)
My favorite player to watch playing is either Ricky Henderson or Mo Rivera in his prime. (Ricky was EXCITING, a single was as good as a double, he ran at will, pitchers were rattled and games were changed, I loved him in Oakland and I loved him even more in NY.) (Rivera was so good for so long that he was accused of being machine-like, he would always challenge hitters and few could get him.)
Jim
Clint Hurdle
He is from my home town.
I was gonna say Clemente. Oh, well then.
Sidd Finch.
Helluva fastball,that guy.
Ok, if you guys are going with Sidd Finch, I’m going to go with Eddie Gaedel. Good ol’ number 1/8.
Tony Gwynn
I don’t have a favorite anymore. When I lived in Seattle, it was Edgar Martinez.
Baseball fans who have HBO might enjoy The Ghosts of Flatbush. I remember the 1955 World Series, but only because a teacher (!) asked me who I was rooting for. When does a teacher ever ask a 10-year-old’s opinion on anything? I said the Dodgers (of course), and the teacher smiled and said, “Ah, you like underdogs then.” That made me think that rooting for the underdog must be a good thing. It made watching the Mariners a lot easier in later years. 
Ronnie Lott
Ozzie Smith
Favorite current player: David Eckstein. A complete player, and a master of the suicide squeeze bunt.
I’m not a baseball fan, but I’ve always liked Cal Ripken.
And I have a crush on Derek Jeter.
I think I’d say JT Snow. I always love watching a good defender, and his HR in 2000 is tainted only because we went on to lose the game. If we’d won, that shot would be up there in the neighborhood of Bobby Thompson’s.
He and Robb Nen were in the Celebrities & Legends softball game this week, and I cracked up when someone hit a “shot” down the first base line, JT dove for it and came up with it cleanly, and tossed a perfect lead to Nen, who covered perfectly. Even in a softball game against Kenny Mayne.
Baseball’s the one with the stick, right?
I know a lot of you will be dismayed but tough shit
Pete Rose
Been watching baseball since 1968; no one else has come close to impressing me.
YMMV.
No, that’s hockey.
<bites off own tongue>
Willie McCovey.
Lou Brock. No one could steal bases like he could.
George Brett.