Baseball's Mount Rushmore

[HecDel]

MLB.COM's question of the week was an interesting one. They asked several players if there were a Mount Rushmore for baseball which four players heads should be on the mountain ? I would say Babe Ruth,
Lou Gehrig, Henry Aaron and Jackie Robinson, who would you pick?

[franklin]

RE: Baseball's Mount Rushmore

I'd go for:
1-Alexander Cartwright Jr._______Although he wasn't a professional baseball player, this man should be called the Father of the Baseball.

2-Babe Ruth______This guy "revolutionized the baseball with his prowess as a homerun hitter. He ushered in an era of economic prosperity for baseball." (Sean Lahman, 1996).

3-Ty Cobb________An artist drawing hits.

And 4- Hank Aaron_______The Home Runs King.

[bly11]

RE: Baseball's Mount Rushmore

Does it have to be only players? Because I'd choose Ruth, Jackie, Kenesaw Landis and Harry Wright. (Honorable mentions to Branch Rickey and Marvin Miller.)

bly11 - Oakland A's conference moderator (just don't chisel Charley O up there!)

[Benny]

RE: Baseball's Mount Rushmore

I think anybody who influenced baseball could be included.

My four:
Alexander Cartwright
Babe Ruth
Jackie Robinson
Branch Rickey

Honorable mentions (in no particular order):
Players:
Lou Gehrig
Hank Aaron
Willie Mays
Ty Cobb
Cy Young
Walter Johnson
Ted Williams
Joe Dimaggio
Christy Matthewson

Figures:
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Marvin Miller
Casey Stengel
John McGraw
Harry Caray

And I'll nominate two more baseball figures to design it. If Moe Berg and Bill Veeck put there heads together, who knows what the result would be?!

Excellent topic.

[trosmok]

RE: Baseball's Mount Rushmore

Ruth, Gehrig, Robinson & Musial.

[shlevine42]

RE: Baseball's Mount Rushmore

Great choices, Benny! I'd also like to see Cartwright, Ruth, Robinson and Rickey memorialized. I think their contributions to the game are the most significant and enduring.

[trosmok]

RE: Baseball's Mount Rushmore

Perhaps facing the opposite way on the back we could have Cobb, Rose, Williams, and Flood.

[bly11]

RE: Baseball's Mount Rushmore

Curt Flood?!? Just because he wanted the right to not have his carcass shipped off willy-nilly without his consent?

Make that back side of the rock Rose, Joe Jackson, Hal Chase and Jim Devlin (the Louisville Grays' only pitcher in 1877; literally threw the NL pennant and got the Grays drummed out of the league).

bly11 - Oakland A's conference moderator
(I'd be tempted to chisel Charley O. on the back face too)

[007]

RE: Baseball's Mount Rushmore

It makes me shudder to think of Landis on Mount Rushmore. You could put him side by side with Jackie Robinson though for the irony of it.

[LeGrandOrange]

RE: Baseball's Mount Rushmore

The Baseball Mount Rushmore on the "Black" Hills:

Jackie Robinson
Hank Aaron
Willie Mays
Frank Robinson

(and I'd leave enough space for future additions, i.e. Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson. I'd also consider making a separate monument elsewhere that's of Reggie Jackson, which will take 75 years to build but will be of Reggie, just Reggie, and only Reggie, as per his nature. =) And I'd try and get a rock from the blasting. *g*)

You know, I got a feeling that Frank would fine some of the rock blasters during the creation. =)
Regardless, that's a venerable who's who, n'est-ce pas?

[Fimbul_Wolf]

RE: Baseball's Mount Rushmore

I'd put:

Alexander Cartwright
Babe Ruth
Jackie Robinson
Lou Gehrig

If it had to be only players, I'd replace Cartwright with Hank Aaron.

[Imapotato]

For better or worse

The 4 most INFLUENTIAL Persons in baseball history

Alexander Cartwright (Baseball's George Washington)
Kenesaw Landis
Jackie Robinson
Babe Ruth

Those 4 had the most influence on the game and society pertqaining to the game

[Sultan_1895-1948]

Players

Ruth
Cobb
Cy Young
Jackie Robinson


Others

A.G. Spalding
Branch Rickey
Harry Frazee
Ban Johnson
Balco Laboratories

[Joltin' Joe]

It is very difficult to only pick 4 as there are so many deserving ones. On the flip side, I cannot think of anyone less deserving than Landis.

[ballparks]

Not only is this thread old, but there's been another like it since:

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=27487&highlight=rushmore