Favorite Home Run Hitter? Part II

[maveric]

Now lets vote on the next 10 big hitters.

[mac56]

1. Of the available choices,

gotta go with the Mick.

[maveric]

3. How many seasons did "The Mick" exceed 100 RBI's in a season?

You may be surprised.

[mac56]

4. Consider the composition of the Yankees in those years.

Comparatively fewer RBI are not a surprise.

[maveric]

5. I was surprised that he only eclipsed that mark Four Times.

Injuries do that to a player too.

[WCGreen]

7. Well he batted fourth in a line up that included some heavy

third hole hitters....

Yogi Berra, I think for a while in the fifties... then Roger Marris...

[maveric]

2. Jimmy Foxx was a monster who's candle burned out early due to booze.

He was done,for all practical purposes, at age 34, only hitting 36 Hr's in his last 4 seasons combined.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/foxxji01.shtml
Supposedly Foxx was the model for the Tom Hnaks character in "A League of Their Own".

[NJ Democrats]

6. Gotta take the Mick

Great player on the greatest franchise in history the Yankees. A switch-hitter too.

[bumblebee1]

8. I'm showing my prejudice here.

I grew up as a Phillies fan, so I chose Mike Schmidt. Both his home run hitting power and his play at third base were a thing of beauty. He also took alot of crap from the Philly fans with nothing but class.

[flvegan]

9. Of these, Ted Williams. But, I'm a long-standing Bosox fan.

Ole number 9.

[maveric]

10. And got booed for entire career in Boston. Go figure!

The man missed five seasons due to war effort too. With five years of 40+ HR's, he'd maybe passed the Babe.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. I went with McCovey

Because he was a helluva nice guy.

God, I was sad when he died. Way too early.

[maveric]

12. Willie McCovey is still with us.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mccovwi01.shtml
You must of mixed him up with Willie Stargell.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. It wasn't Stargell

Dammit. I hate gettin' old. :grr:

McCovey has what, Parkinson's? I could've sworn he died of a stroke a couple years ago.

I'm sure there was a Giant from that era who died not too long ago. Thought maybe it was Jim Ray Hart, but BR says no.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. I gotta go with Eddie Murray, even though he's nowhere near in the ranks

of Aaron etc., because he's the only one out of the group that I actually ROOTED for, with my beloved birdies, as a young 'un.

[maveric]

15. Eddie Mathews quietly hit 500+ HR's.

Played his first season as a "Boston Brave", then the team moved to Milwaukee where he teamed up with Hank Aaron. The most home run prolific teammate tandem in MLB history.
He died here in San Diego a few years ago.

[GOPisEvil]

16. I don't know that anyone ever hit the ball harder than McCovey.

If it didn't go over the wall, it went THROUGH the wall. :D

[k_jerome]

17. ted williams. nt.

[bigwillq]

18. Mantle (nt)

[Faygo Kid]

19. Withdrawn

[maveric]

20. Won a batting title at age 20. Finished with 399 HR's.

And didnt come back to pad his numbers either.
A great and classy ballplayer.

[Faygo Kid]

21. Thanks for noticing. One more home run, and he was the first. . .

American Leaguer to have 3,000 hits and 400 home runs. Instead, Yaztremski got it. But that's cool. Like Mantle, Kaline suffered injuries that kept him from the top of the top. But he was OK with me. My father split. So I adopted Al Kaline as my role model, at a time when role models still mattered. And Al Kaline never let me down as a human being. Ever. That helped a lot. I will be 55 this year, so Al would probably hate to read this. But, he would handle it with class. I loved that guy more than I can say.