Name a baseball player who's cooler than Ted Williams

[underpants]

:shrug:

:scared:

[peekaloo]

1. LOL

head above the rest!

[Captain Hilts]

8. Okay, I laughed. nt

[Blue_Tires]

2. Satchel Paige

[Captain Hilts]

7. Very cool. And more fun at a party, but not quite as cool. But he's #2. nt

[Kingofalldems]

3. I saw him play --my first game

He was the only player who ever had his own personal late inning replacement--Gene Stephens. Now that is cool.

[Dogtown]

4. Is Ted's head still frozen?

*That's* pretty cool...

[HERVEPA]

5. Clay Dalrymple

[Patiod]

23. I hope you're not the guy in the wool Dalrymple shirt

who used to sit a few rows in front of us at the Phillies games. I can't imagine what you smelled like in 100-degree heat....

[HERVEPA]

25. Nope. Just always liked his name. Odd fact that old No. 11 in

the off-season sold shower heads. I have no idea how I remember that.

[Captain Hilts]

6. None. Zilch. THE coolest.

[keroro gunsou]

9. yogi berra

"when you come to a fork in the road, take it."

that is all.

[timtom]

28. Outstanding!

[Jetboy]

10. Cool Papa Bell

Willie Mays

[Captain Hilts]

11. I think Willie is the greatest MLB ever. nt

[Jetboy]

18. Willie is #2 on my list.

Right behind the all time king of the diamond, Babe Ruth.

[Captain Hilts]

22. I give Willie dap for his versatility and great fielding and base-running. But I

can't argue with you. Babe is The Man.

[SteppingRazor]

12. Jackie Robinson. n/t

[abq e streeter]

13. Bill "Spaceman" Lee, and Mark "The Bird" Fidrych

and honorable mention for Steve "Psycho" Lyons

[abq e streeter]

14. And in the waaay back in antiquity category: Rube Waddell

[Oeditpus Rex]

54. Who was known to abruptly abandon his pitching chores

to chase a fire engine.



Gotta admire a man with priorities. :thumbsup:

[rockymountaindem]

15. None exists n/t

[Mr. Ected]

16. Cryogenically Speaking, There Are None

Walt Disney didn't play ball, so he's not a part of the conversation.

[EastTennesseeDem]

17. Jim Edmonds

[Initech]

52. Dude lived in the same neighborhood as me when he played for the Angels.

[EastTennesseeDem]

61. He was my favorite player from 2000 to 2007

Then he, well, went all Cub on me.

[leftofthedial]

19. Van Lingle Mungo

[abq e streeter]

38. coolest name ever with possible exception of Scipio Spinks

[enigmatic]

20. Super Joe Charboneau

[Zomby Woof]

21. Jackie Robinson

[Vidar]

24. Stan Musial, according to many fans

[abq e streeter]

40. I read David Halberstam's October '64---nothing but praise for Musial ...as a man

, not just a great ballplayer....apparently a true gentlemen and a man utterly free of bigotry and prejudice in an era when the same could not be said of many others. I am fortunate to have seen Musial play at least a couple of times at Wrigley Field near the end of his amazing career, when I was a little kid ( as opposed to the old , graying kid I am now).

[A-Schwarzenegger]

26. Spink "Crappy" Djingfieldson.

Swedish shortstop for the Fresno Blueballs, circa 1904.
So cool he'd fall asleep standing up at short. Had a bad
hot dog once, got stuck on second during a 46-pitch at-bat,
shit his pants, got his nick.

[timtom]

27. Moe Berg

[Captain Hilts]

31. Moe was pretty neat, but not much of a ballplayer. nt

[timtom]

36. Sadly enough, he never really amounted to much of anything.

He was almost there: as a ball player, lawyer, spy, but ended up as a reject even from his own family.

[Initech]

29. Doc Ellis - no hitter on LSD.

[abq e streeter]

32. the single greatest athletic feat in the history of the universe

[Oeditpus Rex]

55. Nah

I heard a comedian named Tom Kenny explain it once: Ellis was getting pitching tips from his glove. :D

[abq e streeter]

60. Well, that is an unfair advantage

[reyd reid reed]

30. Head and shoulders...well...at least head

above everyone else.

Good 'un

:thumbsup:

[Joey Liberal]

33. Luis Tiant nt

[abq e streeter]

34. strange synchronicities on DU---just mentioned Luis Tiant's name in a phone conversation

not more than 2 minutes before I saw this post. Talking to my old roommate about great players that we'd seen playing minor league ball. And just a couple of days ago I saw a name of a band from the 60's in a post, that I'd never heard of ( and I thought I knew em all) till the day before that post. Weird, very weird. And yeah, El Tiante was one of the coolest players ever...

[Joey Liberal]

47. That is strange

If you were a broad I'd say we had something. But you are a dude, so its merely a coincidence:).......... Seriously though, El Tianti was cool. I loved his pitching style, and he had a will to win that I think is lacking in today's MLB pitchers.

[Oeditpus Rex]

57. Ever see the 'Cheers' episode where he and Sam did a beer commercial?

Tiant started delivering the catch line — "You never feel full with Field's, you just feel fine" — but he couldn't get through it, so the manager brought Sam in and he nailed it.

"Attaway, Mayday!"

(high fives, etc.)

"Another save!"

Then, Tiant: "I steel geet the ween, don' I?"



It would've been a damned fine real commercial. :D

[Scout]

35. Al Kaline n/t

[Pool Hall Ace]

37. Yes, Al Kaline! My second choice would be Roberto Clemente

[NightWatcher]

43. woohoo good ol #6

[Yavin4]

39. Joe DiMaggio

56-game hitting streak. Marilyn Monroe. Paul Simon lyric in a classic pop tune. Mr. Coffee.

'nuff said.

[sarge43]

44. He also was a gentleman.

Never ran his mouth about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. He could have made a mint off of any book. Every day always left a rose at her grave.

[hellbound-liberal]

41. Thurman Munson

who died learning how to fly a plane so that he could visit his family on his days off.

[GOPisEvil]

42. Curt Flood.

Every modern major league ballplayer owes Curt a debt of gratitude.

[Oeditpus Rex]

58. There were a couple other guys in there

Andy Messersmith was one.

Messersmith is most famous for his role in the historic 1975 Seitz decision which led to the downfall of Major League Baseball's reserve clause and ushered in the current era of free agency. It began when Messersmith went to spring training in 1975 and began negotiating his 1975 contract. He asked for a no-trade clause which the Dodgers refused. According to author John Helyar, in The Lords of the Realm, Messersmith was also deeply offended by general manager Al Campanis "inject(ing) a personal issue" into the talks (it "cut so deeply with him," Helyar has written, that Messersmith since has never been able to bring himself to disclose or discuss it), and the pitcher refused to deal with anyone lower than team president Peter O'Malley.

(snip)

"It was less of an economic issue at the time than a fight for the right to have control over your own destiny," Messersmith told The Sporting News, looking back on his decision a decade later. "It was a matter of being tired of going in to negotiate a contract and hearing the owners say, 'OK, here's what you're getting. Tough luck'."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Messersmith


Flood, though, took it all the way to the Supreme Court, so he's the go-to guy.



Incidentally, Messersmith lives just a few miles from here and stepped down as baseball coach at the local community college a couple weeks ago.

[ellisonz]

45. Dock Ellis threw a no hitter on LSD.

[Brigid]

46. What, nobody mentioned Nolan Ryan yet?

And Carlos Zambrano is muy caliente! :evilgrin:

[jobycom]

49. He deserves mention just for spanking baby Robin Ventura on national TV.

Ah, memories to warm the heart.

[Orrex]

48. Chili Davis?

Nice copycat, by the way! :rofl:

[jobycom]

50. Josh Gibson, Buck O'Neil, Joe Dimaggio, Shoeless Joe Jackson. Hell, the Splinter ain't in the top 10

[jobycom]

51. Peewee Reese. nt

[MilesColtrane]

53. Fergie Jenkins

He's Canadian.
He's a three time all star.
Cy Young Award Winner.
Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Former Harlem Globetrotter.
He was the starting pitcher for the Rangers during the Great Ten Cent Beer Night Riot in Cleveland.
He rocked a pretty outstanding moustache and fro combo.

[Richard Steele]

56. Dude, I know three homeless addicts who are cooler than Ted Williams.

Perhaps we're not thinking of the same "Ted Williams" here? :shrug:

[Kickin_Donkey]

59. The OP's reference to Ted Williams being the "coolest" player ...

refers to the fact that after he died, his head was severed and frozen cryrogenically, in accordance with a family pact. (I don't know if his head was indeed frozen -- memory fails me on the details.)

As long as we're talking tongue-in-cheek, I'll say Sidd Finch and Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd are the coolest players.

[cloudbase]

62. These guys: