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Originally Posted by sflcat61
Curious about a few players. Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Dizzy Dean, Micky Mantle, Pete Rose and Barry Bonds.
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Originally Posted by dynaboyj
Curious about Babe Ruth too. Did you keep him a pitcher?
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Babe Ruth spent his entire 25 year career with the Pittsburgh Pirates and was inducted into the HOF on his first year of eligibility after notching 300 wins, just over 5000 innings pitched while still blasting 80 homers. In fact, he was 5th in the league in homers with 11 in 1920.
Ruth was also the 1914 Rookie of the Year and 1924 Pitcher of the Year while also garnering two player of the week awards and a pair of pitcher of the month awards as well during his career.
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Christy Mathewson wound up a pedestrian 152-148 for his 15 year career splitting time with both the Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. Things started off well for Christy after winning 12 games and being named the 1900 AL Rookie of the Year. Unfortunately for the strapping righthander, his performance was up and down and several times throughout the years he missed 4 months or more due to injuries. Twice he won as many as 20 games in a season, but over his final 4 seasons, he never appeared in more than 7 games in a year before retiring after the 1917 season.
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Ty Cobb spent his entire 23 year career as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies after being selected number 2 overall in the 1904 amateur draft. Along with a 1905 Rookie of the Year award, the notoriously competitive outfielder was awarded the Silver Slugger Award as the NL's best hitter 4 different times, earned an Outfield Gold Glove 8 different times along with being named NL Player of the Week a whopping 31 times in his career.
The Georgia Peach wound up amassing only 3423 hits in comparison to real life, but that is still good enough for 4th place all-time in this replay, trailing only Travis Jackson (4060), Gene Demontreville (3448) and John McGraw (3431). Cobb was inducted into the HOF in 1933, his first year of eligibility.
I'll continue with the rest of the list shortly. Hope you've enjoyed thus far!