Best ML 1B in Bay Area History

[9RoyHobbsRF]

Best ML 1B in Bay Area History

[Gee Walker]

Is there any real competition to McCovey?

Giambi and McGwire are a couple of steroid guys with short gaudy careers.
Cepeda was as good as McCovey for a few years, but played almost full-time OF once McCovey made the Giants.

Clark was a good player in a short career. Snow was a lower-level Keith Hernandez.

Keep in mind that a lot of McCovey's best years were played in Candlestick Park in the 1960's. There have been worse times and places to be a hitter, but of the list only Cepeda actually had to deal with it.

[9RoyHobbsRF]

^ you have it backwards

1962 McCovey OF 57 1B 17
1963 McCovey 135 OF 23 1B
1964 McCovey 83 OF 26 1B

[Honus Wagner Rules]

Is there any real competition to McCovey?

Giambi and McGwire are a couple of steroid guys with short gaudy careers.
Cepeda was as good as McCovey for a few years, but played almost full-time OF once McCovey made the Giants.

Clark was a good player in a short career. Snow was a lower-level Keith Hernandez.

Keep in mind that a lot of McCovey's best years were played in Candlestick Park in the 1960's. There have been worse times and places to be a hitter, but of the list only Cepeda actually had to deal with it.

Will Clark did as well.

[9RoyHobbsRF]

JT Snow 1997-1999

so really the 2 A's (obviously) only

[Gee Walker]

Clark and Snow had to deal with Candlestick in the 80's and 90's - not the era when a strike was defined as "from the bottom of the knees to the top of the shoulders". That must have been fun, hitting the high fastball from Koufax, Drysdale, Gibson, Maloney etc. on a day when it's 52°F out and windy. Which seems to be about half the games at Candlestick.