Best Position Players of All Time - #22

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--Congratulations to Nap Lajoie for claiming his place amoung the all time greats in poll #1. Elected so far;
1) Babe Ruth
2) Ty Cobb
3) Willie Mays
4) Honus wagner
5) Ted Williams
6) Barry Bonds
7) Tris Speaker
8) Stan Musial
9) Lou Gehrig
10) Hank Aaron
11) Mickey Mantle
12) Rogers Hornsby
13) Eddie Collins
14) Mike Schmidt
15) Oscar Charleston
16) Josh Gibson
17) Joe DiMaggio
18) Frank Robinson
19) Joe Morgan
20) Jimmie Foxx
21) Nap Lajoie
---Please vote for your top 10 remaining candidates, numbered 1-10. The votes wil be counted MVP style in a week or so.l

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My Ballot

1) Johnny Bench - best MLB catcher ever is overdue
2) Rickey Henderson - best leadoff man ever may be also
3) Alex Riodriguez - 5 years from now this will look laughably low
4) Pop Lloyd - best NeL infielder
5) Yogi Berra - #2 MLB catcher
6) Eddie Mathews - #2 all time 3B
7) George Brett - right on Eddie's heels
8) Turkey Stearnes - unrated NeL suoerstar
9) Cap Anson - best player of the 19th century
10) Reggie Jackson - best AL player and slugger of the 1970s
--my second team
C) Piazza
1B) Murray
2B) Gehringer
3B) Boggs
SS) Ripken
LF) Yaz
CF) Griffey
RF) Ott
DH) Thomas
Utl) Rose
10)

[abacab]

1. Mel Ott
2. Johnny Bench
3. Rickey Henderson
4. Pop Lloyd
5. Eddie Mathews
6. Yogi Berra
7. George Brett
8. Ken Griffey Jr.
9. Alex Rodriguez
10. Carl Yastrzemski

[dgarza]

1. Mel Ott
2. Dan Brouthers
3. Cap Anson
4. Ed Delahanty
5. Pete Rose
6. Sam Crawford
7. Harry Heilmann
8. Johnny Mize
9. Alex Rodriguez
10. Paul Waner

[Yankee Legend]

1. Johnny Bench
2. Roberto Clemente
3. Pete Rose
4. George Sisler
5. Joe Jackson
6. Hank Greenberg
7. Ernie Banks
8. Yogi Berra
9. Mel Ott
10. Al Simmons

11. Jackie Robinson
12. Charley Gehringer
13. Buck Leonard
14. Reggie Jackson
15. Tony Gwynn
16. Roy Campanella
17. Rickey Henderson
18. Harry Heilmann
19. George Brett
20. Willie McCovey

[Blackout]

1-Alex Rodriguez
2-Pop Lloyd
3-Frank Thomas
4-Yogi Berra
5-Joe Jackson
6-Ed Delahanty
7-Wade Boggs
8-Cap Anson
9-Tony Gwynn
10-Johnny Bench

[Wee Willie]

1. Mel Ott
2. Rickey Henderson
3. Pop Lloyd
4. Eddie Mathews
5. Arky Vaughan
6. Alex Rodriguez
7. Turkey Stearnes
8. Jeff Bagwell
9. Yogi Berra
10. George Brett

[mac195]

1. Alex Rodriguez
2. Johnny Bench
3. Rickey Henderson
4. Yogi Berra
5. Mel Ott
6. Pop Lloyd
7. George Brett
8. Eddie Mathews
9. Ken Griffey Jr.
10. Carl Yastrzemski

[Bench 5]

1. Johnny Bench - symbol of excellence
2. Alex Rodriguez - underrated because of big contract
3. Pop Lloyd - If he's good enough for Hans he's good enough for me
4. Ernie Banks - best Cub of all time
5. Cal Ripken - always thought he'd be even better but still great
6. Harmon Killebrew - HR hitting machine
7. Ken Griffey Jr - considering he probably wasn't on steroids, his numbers are even more incredible
8. Eddie Matthews - 2nd best to Schmitty
9. Roberto Clemente - superb overall player
10. Mel Ott - Adjusted his game to his park but road splits still awesome

[Cyclone792]

1) Mel Ott
2) Rickey Henderson
3) Eddie Mathews
4) Johnny Bench
5) Pete Rose
6) Arky Vaughan
7) Pop Lloyd
8) Alex Rodriguez
9) Joe Jackson
10) George Brett

[yanks0714]

1) Rickey Henderson
2) Eddie Matthews
3) Ed Delahanty
4) Jackie Robinson
5) Mel Ott
6) Johnny Bench
7) George Brett
8) Hank Greenberg
9) Frank Thomas (usually don't vote for actives but he's about done)
10) Arky Vaughan

[Freakshow]

1.Ott
2.E.Mathews
3.A.Rodriguez
4.R.Henderson
5.Brett
6.Ripken
7.Bench
8.Anson
9.Berra
10.Lloyd

[mac195]

9) Frank Thomas (usually don't vote for actives but he's about done)

Active players are being ranked along with everyone else in this poll. If you are going to participate, I think you need to rank them. Otherwise, you will skew the results.

[baseballPAP]

1- Rickey Henderson-best leadoff hitter ever, except maybe for #4 below
2- Johnny Bench
3- Alex Rodriguez-moving up yearly
4- Billy Hamilton
5- Ed Delahanty
6- Dan Brouthers
7-Eddie Mathews
8-Pop Lloyd
9-Mel Ott
10-Cap Anson

[RogersMaris]

1 Pop Lloyd
2 Yogi Berra
3 Johnny Bench
4 Jackie Robinson
5 Alex Rodriguez
6 Biz Mackay
7 Eddie Mathews
8 Al Kaline
9 Melvin Ott
10 George Brett