1,000 baseball player thread

[DaveW]

1,000th topic in this thread, so I say we do a game. Each post in this thread names a Major League Baseball player. Let's see if we can get up to 1,000 with no duplicates.

 

Can be current or past major leaguers, no minor leaguers.

 

I will start:

 

Julio Franco

[biggentleben]

I think it'd be fun to have a connection with each one, as loose as it may be:

 

Fellow former Braves first baseman, Bob Horner

[Seth Stohs]

The guy I backed up in college... 

 

Former Phillies and Astros catcher Chris Coste.

[nater79a]

Staying with the Braves theme... 2B Glenn Hubbard.

[BeenHazy]

 

I think it'd be fun to have a connection with each one, as loose as it may be:

 

Fellow former Braves first baseman, Bob Horner

Skipping back a couple of places in the thread (and 119 years) to the only other player with 4 HR in a loss, Big Ed Delahanty.

[Jarends703]

Jamey Carroll has exactly 1000 hits.

[scottz]

Staying with the Braves theme... 2B Glenn Hubbard.

From Glenn Hubbard (who once appeared on a baseball card holding a snake), I will make a connection to Scott Downs (who apparently had the nickname Snakeface).

[nicksaviking]

HOFer "Bucketfoot" Al Simmons signed and gave my grandfather a HR ball he hit in the 1929 World Series.

[Bark's Lounge]

Lenn Sakata

[Willihammer]

Chuck Knoblauch

[curt1965]

My best friend's cousin- Danny Dorn

[Vanimal46]

RP Brad Hand - Chaska, MN

 

The only MLB pitcher I have 1 PA from my HS career that many compared to Bill Bergen.....0-1 1 K 1 foul ball.

[Dantes929]

Another Minnesotan born and raised.   I played Legion ball with his brother, Charlie.  Jim Eisenreich.

[mickeymental]

got struck out by eric gunderson in a 35+ league a few years back -- memory burn in the form of a few used-to-be-mlb sliders.

[SwainZag]

 

got struck out by eric gunderson in a 35+ league a few years back -- memory burn in the form of a few used-to-be-mlb sliders.

 

Eric Gunderson!

 

I'll go more modern then, Curtis Granderson

[Craig Arko]

Going to play the A's tonight.

 

Vida Blue.

[dbminn]

During the offseason, Dave Goltz would bowl in the Tuesday afternoon Farmer's League with my Grandpa Carl. (Northern Aire Lanes, Fergus Falls, Minnesota.)

[Circus Boy]

 

The guy I backed up in college... 

 

Former Phillies and Astros catcher Chris Coste.

 

The guy I backed into accidently in a biker bar in Hibbard...

 

Seth Stohs.

[USAFChief]

Closest I can get to my age, my hometown (but not quite on either): 2200+ MLB PAs, six teams...Mike Kingery, Atwater Minnesota.

[James]

I'm just going to go with my favorite player during the 1987 World Series (I was not quite 5 years old)...

 

Randy Bush

[Seth Stohs]

Got struck out in a college game by Kerry Ligtenberg.

[Vanimal46]

SP Bob Tewksbury - remember him from the terrible Twins days in 1998?

[TheBatShatters]

Guy who used to kill the Twins but sucked against everyone else - Dave Nilsson

[Brock Beauchamp]

You people are really letting me down this morning.

 

Rusty Kuntz.

[Jeremy Nygaard]

The first player I ever card-collected: Marquis Grissom

[Thrylos]

Reverend Aloysius Stanislaus Travers (one of baseball's greatest stories, from the story telling era...)

[Vanimal46]

Quinton McCracken

[Vanimal46]

Vance Worley - the real Vanimal.....

[Vanimal46]

3B Troy Glaus

[bird]

Bruce Look. In honor of us needing a decent backup catcher.