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re: Best major league baseball player you ever saw play in person.

Posted on 4/4/18 at 5:31 pm to
Posted by rutiger
purgatory
Member since Jun 2007
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Posted on 4/4/18 at 5:31 pm to
I saw bonds hit a hr off maddux in a playoff game.
Posted by CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
Member since Dec 2014
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Posted on 4/4/18 at 5:42 pm to
Easy call for me.

Posted by MUMFORD
Houston
Member since Nov 2008
1754 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 6:41 pm to
Grateful to have seen the following play:

Gwynn
Ripken
Puckett
Mcgwire (STL)
Mattingly

Also worth noting:

Dieon Sanders (NYY) - homered vs. Brewers

Bo Jackson (KC) - Saw him homer and get caught stealing in same game vs. Brewers.
This post was edited on 4/4/18 at 6:42 pm
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
65056 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 6:42 pm to
Greg Maddux. Followed closely by John Smoltz.

Posted by Ralph_Wiggum
Sugarland
Member since Jul 2005
10666 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 6:58 pm to
Ken Griffey Jr.
I've seen Bonds and Sosa in person but I don't want to list them since they cheated. Same with Mark McGwire
I"ve also Miguel Cabrera in perso and I would rank him second after Griffey Jr.
I"ve also seen Cal Ripken, Eddie Murray, Frank Thomas, Tom Seaver, and Ricky Henderson.

For what it's worth I saw Wayne Gretzky in person.
This post was edited on 4/4/18 at 7:03 pm
Posted by NorthshoreTiger76
Pelicans, Saints, & LSU Fan
Member since May 2009
80174 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:09 pm to
Otis Nixon
Posted by BARNEYSTINSON
Member since Oct 2011
773 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:15 pm to
Recent players...Mike Trout and Jose Altuve
Posted by Wally Sparks
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2013
29151 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:27 pm to
Griffey, Maddux, Ripken, Gwynn
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
Member since Mar 2006
34647 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:52 pm to
Never been to a major league game, but I've seen

Saltalamacchia (sp) in Pearl, MS.

Larry Sheets and Nick Stavinoha (sp) in Little Rock

Bill Almon, Mike Ivie, John Grubb, Dan Spillner, and Randy Jones in Alexandria.
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
171036 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 7:53 pm to
quote:

John Smoltz


My brother and I were at his 200th win.
Posted by Zappas Stache
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Member since Apr 2009
38678 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:03 pm to
Willie Mays but he was old at that point.
Nolan Ryan
Pete Rose.... Saw him in a casino in Reno just after he had been kicked out of baseball too.
Johnny Bench.. And the rest of the Big Red Machine

Posted by ShaneTheLegLechler
Member since Dec 2011
60148 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:04 pm to
John Halama
Posted by OldTigahFot
Drinkin' with the rocket scientists
Member since Jan 2012
10502 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:05 pm to
Nolan Ryan
Roger Clemens
Will Clark
Jeff Bagwell
Craig Biggio
Posted by bah humbug
Member since Nov 2011
1705 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:12 pm to
SF @ Tex
Bonds, ARod

ARZ @ Tex
Randy Johnson hit 98mph in the 8th.
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
South Florida
Member since Apr 2010
30090 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 9:29 pm to
Hank Aaron
Posted by Cajunese
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2005
6970 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 9:45 pm to
Lance Berkman when he played for the Zephyrs

Posted by Wishnitwas1998
where TN, MS, and AL meet
Member since Oct 2010
58203 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 9:50 pm to
Bonds or Pujols

My heart says Albert, mind says Bonds but just barely
Posted by nvasil1
Hellinois
Member since Oct 2009
15892 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 9:53 pm to
With total bias, Frank Thomas. To see a guy with that much size and power also hit for average every year was a fun thing to watch.

White Sox-Mariners games in the 90s were just awesome to witness in person. Big Hurt, Junior, Tim Raines, young A-Rod, Albert Belle, Edgar Martinez, Bo Jackson, Big Unit, even Black Jack McDowell. As a kid, those games felt like big events.
Posted by WinnPtiger
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2011
23875 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 9:57 pm to
Pudge

eta: for a lifer of my club. A-Rod is somewhere up there. Griffey. Pujols, Trout, obviously a lot of west coast guys
This post was edited on 4/4/18 at 9:59 pm
Posted by RedPop4
Santiago de Compostela
Member since Jan 2005
14403 posts
Posted on 4/4/18 at 10:35 pm to
quote:

With total bias, Frank Thomas. To see a guy with that much size and power also hit for average every year was a fun thing to watch.


We got a fair number of White Sox games here in the 1980s and 1990s. As bad as it sounds, I like both Chicago teams and wish I could have got to old Comiskey Park before they demolished it.

Was at the New Comiskey park in 2003 the night Frank Thomas hit his 400th home run.
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