# Updating Harry Stein's Ethnic Team Lists (Esquire, 1976)

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**Created:** [March 11, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/updating-harry-steins-ethnic-team-lists-esquire-1976/347977 "2006-03-11T22:01:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/updating-harry-steins-ethnic-team-lists-esquire-1976/347977/41 "2016-08-17T22:39:05Z")

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I’d like to see an All College team (all with at least four-year degrees) and an All Unschooled team (preferably nobody who even finished high school; bonus if they are of good character) 🙂  
And an all-military team–players who served in the armed forces with distinction. 🙂

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/updating-harry-steins-ethnic-team-lists-esquire-1976/347977/42 "2016-08-17T23:56:07Z")

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> [@dougie\_monty](#):
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> And an all-military team–players who served in the armed forces with distinction. 🙂

Many great players left off this list, but here’s a shot at an All-Military team. Jim Kern is the only name on the list that debuted in the majors after 1960:

C - Yogi Berra  
1B - Hank Greenberg  
2B - Eddie Collins  
SS - Ernie Banks  
3B - Jackie Robinson  
OF - Ted Williams  
OF - Willie Mays  
OF - Stan Musial

Bench - George Sisler, Joe DiMaggio, Tris Speaker, Luke Appling, Mickey Cochrane

SP - Bob Feller  
SP - Warren Spahn  
SP - Grover Cleveland Alexander  
SP - Christy Mathewson  
SP - Ted Lyons  
RP - Hoyt Wilhelm  
RP - Red Ruffing  
RP - Jim Kern

Manager - Red Schoendienst

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/updating-harry-steins-ethnic-team-lists-esquire-1976/347977/43 "2016-08-19T20:24:33Z")

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> [@bordelond](#):
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> Many great players left off this list, but here’s a shot at an All-Military team. Jim Kern is the only name on the list that debuted in the majors after 1960:
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> C - Yogi Berra  
> 1B - Hank Greenberg  
> 2B - Eddie Collins  
> SS - Ernie Banks  
> 3B - Jackie Robinson  
> OF - Ted Williams  
> OF - Willie Mays  
> OF - Stan Musial
> 
> Bench - George Sisler, Joe DiMaggio, Tris Speaker, Luke Appling, Mickey Cochrane
> 
> SP - Bob Feller  
> SP - Warren Spahn  
> SP - Grover Cleveland Alexander  
> SP - Christy Mathewson  
> SP - Ted Lyons  
> RP - Hoyt Wilhelm  
> RP - Red Ruffing  
> RP - Jim Kern
> 
> Manager - Red Schoendienst

Ralph “The Major” Houk would make a good manager, too.

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**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/updating-harry-steins-ethnic-team-lists-esquire-1976/347977/44 "2016-08-21T23:21:51Z")

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> [@Quercus](#):
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> Bill Lee would be upset with you about being left off this list, that is, if he bothered to care about this kind of thing.

As would Tug McGraw, who even threw a pretty fair country screwball.

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