Cartwright (codified the game)
Ruth (best player)
Stengel (best manager)
Kenesaw Mountain Landis - first and most influential commissioner of baseball
I’m kind of surprised that I’m the only one voted for Oh.
Maybe lack of familiarity with Japanese baseball’s cultural aspects. Anybody with a Web connection can find out who the best players there were and are statistically, but it’s far less clear who the *faces of the game *there have been. In terms of on-field performance, there’s also awareness that the top leagues there are AAA or AAAA in quality, so performances there are discounted, fairly or not.
None that matter. 
Ruth, Mays, Cy Young, and Walter Johnson. Seems only fair to have two pitchers and two hitters on there.
Hey, if we’re looking at managers and commissioners (which is legit), how about general managers? Branch Rickey? Responsible for integration (he signed Robinson and Clemente), and the minor league farm system. And he built eight pennant winners.
Oh absolutely IS the face of Japanese baseball.
But the OP asked for the Mount Rushmore of baseball, and Rushmore’s indisputably an American thing. There aren’t any statesmen from other countries on the real Mount Rushmore.
Mount Rushmore is the Mount Rushmore of America(n Presidents). “The Mount Rushmore of baseball” should have no intrinsic limitation to American baseball… except that, for the first half of baseball history, there was basically no other kind. And while Japanese baseball is very important, I’m not sure it deserves one-fourth of the total monument. Maybe if Oh was taken to represent all of baseball beyond America.
OP chiming in.
I intentionally did not limit this to MLB.
It’s your mount, carve who you like into it.
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Ruth
Robinson
Bonds
Paige
On second thought, replace Paige with Yogi Berra. I can’t really explain why.
You shouldn’t really explain why you should.
As well as what may have been the worst team in baseball history, the 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates with a .273 winning percentage.
Exactly. Which is why mine is all Dodgers.
Anybody can have a bad year. 
Actually, that was only the tenth-worst major-league mark. Five NL teams (including the 1962 Mets) and four AL (including the 2003 Tigers) have played to worse final percentages.
Babe Ruth
Willie Mays
Cy Young
Stan Musial
I’d pay up and become a Member of this Board … if they’d just have the decency to increase, as repeatedly requested, the Edit window from 5 minutes to 6 or 7 minutes.
Givens:
- Babe Ruth
- Jackie Robinson
Picked because I’m biased toward him:
3. Willie Mays
Because there should be at least one great pitcher:
4. Cy Young*
*Would not object if substituted with Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Satchel Paige, Sandy Koufax. or Bob Gibson.
I did not say it was the worst mark; only that it was arguably the worst team. And then he traded Ralph Kiner.