Found August 11, 2011 on Batter's Box:
Thanks to Bauxite Jeremy for crafting this outstanding "positional" Hall of Names feature.******* Over at the Straight Dope message board, there's a thread trying to create an "All-First Baseman" all-star team. The challenge is to find players who played at least 600 games at first base, and 600 games at another position (with the outfield counting as one position) and see if a roster, or at least a starting lineup, can be completed. It's actually fairly easy to come up with a starting lineup. Starting at catcher, and going from first to third, with the numbers in parentheses equaling (games at 1B/games at other position), we have:**indicates Hall of Famer C Joe Torre (787/903)1B Lou Gehrig** (2137) -- any 1200 game 1B is eligible to start at first.2B Rod Carew** (1184/1130)SS Ernie Banks** (1259/1125)3B Harmon Killebrew** (969/791)OF Carl Yastrzemski** (765/2076)OF Stan Musial** (1016/1890)OF Willie Stargell** (848/1296)DH Frank Thomas (971/1308) -- that...
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