1,000 baseball player thread

[Monkeypaws]

One of my favorite baseball cards: 

 

http://www.jonfinkel.com/wp-content/uploads/razor.jpg

[Pardon My Dinger]

Bill Smith. There's six right there.

[Vanimal46]

SP David Wells - who famously claimed to be "half-drunk" pitching a perfect game against our favorite club...

 

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.420566.1314527772!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/amd-wells-reacts-jpg.jpg

[SwainZag]

One of the only ball players from my hometown, 2nd overall pick in the 1965 draft, SP Les Rohr.

[WLFINN]

The guy that would have the longest hitting streak if only he hadn't gotten hurt.....Glenn Williams all he did as a Twin was hit, hit, hit.......

[Steve Lein]

Because I loved the nickname: Crime Dog, Fred McGriff.

[Vanimal46]

3B Joe Crede

[Vanimal46]

The Man with an ox... Jim Thome

 

http://mit.zenfs.com/121/2011/04/thome_ox_behind.jpg

[awinter]

Rich Becker.

[Cap'n Piranha]

How about the guy with an all-time great name, and an all-time great quote?  When a game was fogged out in Cleveland, he stated "that's what they get for building a stadium on the ocean".

 

The immortal Oil Can Boyd

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

Mike Cubbage

[nicksaviking]

He of the perfect OBP.  Eddie Gaedel.

[bluechipper]

He's a career .215 hitter with a .236 career SLG. He posted a -78 OPS+ in 2012.

 

He is Tsuyoshi Nishioka.

[Vanimal46]

A guy who punched the cement wall in the dugout, breaking his pitching hand in the process.

 

SP Kevin Brown

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Bo

[James]

The only player to throw a no hitter while on LSD... that we know of.

 

Dock Ellis

 

[TJW]

Houston Jiminez

 

aka Alfonso Gonzales

 

Why did he need two names?

[Monkeypaws]

Another favorite:

 

http://i926.photobucket.com/albums/ad109/monkeypox/front.jpg

 

THAT is an athlete!

[big dog]

Skeeter Barnes.  My grad school roommate read about a trade for him, and said about the other guy: "You know your career isn't going too well when you are traded straight up for a guy named Skeeter."

 

[Willihammer]

Oops. Sorry everyone for knocking probably the 5th most notable player of all time for Twins fans off the board (Knoblauch). I missed the idea on that one.

 

So to make up for it here's someone that nobody remembers (besides Chief).

 

Cy Young

[Monkeypaws]

One more, then I'll stop for today. Love that KC Athletics hat:

 

[Seth Stohs]

One of the most interesting Twins in their history, a former Sandinista National Liberation Front guerrilla who was once the Twins opening day starter, Al Williams. 

 

Here is his fascinating story from The New York Times. 

[twinssporto]

My sister works for the Marlins and invited me to Kirby Puckett's HOF induction.  That's not the name I'm choosing though.  She introduced me to Pete Rose and we ended up having breakfast together.  

 

Pete Rose - Not the brightest bulb...

[notoriousgod71]

 

The only player to throw a no hitter while on LSD... that we know of.

 

Dock Ellis

 

 

 

They didn't call him Dock Ellis-D for nothing.

 

 

Fred Merkle

[RaymondLuxuryYacht]

He wore his birthday (May 17) on the back of his uniform

 

Carlos May

[BeenHazy]

 

Got struck out in a college game by Kerry Ligtenberg.

The only other UM-Morris Cougar, who returned to start a chain of events that contributed to my lack of a college degree, Jerry Koosman.

[biggentleben]

A former Twin from my home town of Huron, SD:

 

Kevin Stanfield

[stringer bell]

I'll Play! Disappointing Twins Second Baseman for $200 Alex. Chuck Schilling, traded for but never played for the Twins.

[Bark's Lounge]

Since there has been a little name dropping going on. I remember my dad telling me we were 2nd cousins or something of that nature to the late, great Johnny Blanchard a few decades ago.

http://caimages.collectors.com/psaimages/3976/06365452/1960Topps283JohnBlanchardPSA8452.jpg

[bird]

 

I'll Play! Disappointing Twins Second Baseman for $200 Alex. Chuck Schilling, traded for but never played for the Twins.

 

 

I'll take disappointing catchers for $100 Alex. Who was Derek Parks?