Reader Challenge: My Top 10 Favorite Players

Thursday, March 20 2008 @ 02:21 PM EDT

Most serious baseball fans usually end up with a short list of players who are their "favorites" for one inexplicable reason or another. Maybe it's a Hall of Famer, maybe it's a cuppajoe guy who tossed you a ball at a minor league game.

My personal list includes one HOFer, some All-Stars, a couple of 20-win guys who were neither All-Stars nor HOFers, and a couple of guys many of you will never have heard of, I suspect. Glance over my list and provide your own ... and of course, feel free to tell us why, or if you prefer, leave a little mystery to the whole deal. Here we go ...

My Top 10 Favorite Players
(coincidentally, five pitchers and five position players, listed alphabetically only)

• Frank Catalanotto (just really love the grit and hustle.)
• John Doherty (Do I really have to explain this one?)
• Ralph Garr (Boyhood hero of my best pal and me -- cool baseball card.)
• Bill Gullickson (Diabetics everywhere -- like me -- think he's "sweet.")
• Rick Helling (Saved my fantasy team the year he won 20.)
• Ken Henderson (My favorite player ever ... can't explain it.)
• Joe Lis (Great Toledo Mud Hen when I was a kid.)
• Frank Pastore (Thought he was going to be "The Next Seaver" ... whoops!)
• Tom Seaver (Greatest SP ever. No alternative opinions accepted!)
• Alan Trammell (Why is he not in the Hall of Fame???)

Who's up next?

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