Tony Oliva

I had Billy Williams and Richie Ashburn on my olds list... didn't notice til now they are both picked..

Ted Simmons

Is that it until Monday?

Yes

Todd Zeile

Carl Crawford.. and I a not sure...

George Kell

Rank	Player (yrs, age)	Hits	Bats	Correct?	Round	POGger
103	Ted Simmons (21)	2472	B	Yes	24	True North
125	Miguel Tejada (16)	2407	R	Yes	24	ArcticKnight
130	Edd Roush+ (18)	2376	L	Yes	23	True North
241	Cesar Cedeno (17)	2087	R	Yes	23	nails
255	Wally Joyner (16)	2060	L	Yes	23	ArcticKnight
257	George Kell+ (15)	2054	R	Yes	25	True North
285	Todd Zeile (16)	2004	R	Yes	25	nails
319	Carl Crawford (15)	1931	L	No	25	ArcticKnight
328	Tony Oliva (15)	1917	L	No	24	nails

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JMurder3

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Eric

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insanity31

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PokerCrazy94

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Harry Heilmann

Amos Otis

I hope you let him know that in the very important sports circles of 2+2, he is a forgotten man...lol

Fred Lynn

Good news.....That was my favourite player growing up. He and Jim Rice arrived at the same time. The 75 Red Sox/Reds series was awesome for me and my dad to watch. I thought Lynn was going to be HOF for sure, and then some injuries/decline and it was not meant to be.....

Terry Francona reminded me of Lynn, and then he got injured and had his career cut short too

Bad news... I know for sure Lynn doesn't have 2K, or I would have picked him #1.....

I used to play 1 on 1 baseball in the backyard with my dad when I was 6 or 7 years old. We used a tennis ball and the rule was that as you were running the bases, if the fielder threw the ball to you, you had to catch it and tag yourself out.

I was always the Reds and Dad was the Red Sox. "Now I'm Johnny bench." "Now I'm Joe Morgan." And so on. When Mom would join us she might pinch hit for me as "Rose Pete." And when she pinch hit for my dad, you guessed it. "Lynn Fred."

Not surprised Freddie came up short. I remember he lost effectiveness earlier than he should have due to injury, but hoped he might have gotten there. Especially since I'm running thin on ideas (and I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of old HOFers like TN does).

I think Lynn was a better hitter than Rice -- not necessarily more powerful, but a sweeter stroke. I still have his 1976 baseball card, after he won ROY (over Rice, IIRC).

The 1975 WS was a formative baseball memory for me (I was 8), particularly game 6. My dad (a huge baseball fan, played a little bit of college ball) was working late, and my mom let me watch the game until 8:00 pm (west coast time) -- just about the time the game went into extra innings. My dad had gotten these bicentennial transistor radios from a salesman at work, and he had given one to me and my brother. So after being sent to bed, I put the earpiece in and listened to the radio broadcast of the game. My dad came home, checked in on me, and found I was still awake listening to the game. He had been listening to the same broadcast on the drive home. So he got me up and we watched the Fisk homer together.

I love talking baseball. My dad was pretty good when he was young. When he was 17 or 18 he was a pitcher in a Halifax-Dartmouth league. My mom has clippings of him pitching no hitters, and one where he hit three homers in a game when he threw a one-hitter. He has early Alzheimer's now but I still ask him what his favourite baseball memory was. You think it would be something good that he did, but it isn't.

He always tells me that his most memorable moment was giving up what people remember as the longest homerun ever in one Dartmouth ballpark...lol "One bounce and off the arena," he said. His center-fielder said it was still going up when it went over his head...lol Funny the things that stand out..

Some of my best childhood memories will always be linked to baseball and my father.

Nice story Nails.

Maury Wills

I got pretty much nothing hopeful after this.... I think TN probably still has 25 locks....lol

My only hope is to outlast nails...

2134 hits

That's one way to do it -- steal one of the last guys on my desperately-hoping list. I just noticed last night that Wills was conspicuously absent from the list.

I got two strikes and need to foul a few off to stay alive. The other guy I noticed as being conspicuously missing was Shawn Green. He should probably have hit the 2000 mark.

Shawn Green is the bottom player on the list. 2003 hits, I believe.

I think TN is on vacation so you two have a chance of taking the prize.

I'll take it. It's like barely fouling off one of Mariano Rivera's splitters...still alive!