Famous Baseball Players
When baseball is the topic, a lot of baseball players come in the picture. Of the many baseball players today, only some hold the distinction of being classified as one of the most famous baseball players in history. Below are some of the world’s hall of fame awardees and famous baseball players.
Tony Gwynn- Tony Gwynn is one of the most recently awarded a hall of fame award for being one of the most famous baseball players. He grew up in Long Beach, California. He played for twenty straight seasons for San Diego Padres. Because of his fame and his many titles won, he was able to receive five hundred and thirty-two votes for the hall of fame award.
Cal Ripken Jr.- This famous baseball player is the top hall of fame awardee this year. Cal Ripken Jr. grew up in Aberdeen and played for the Baltimore Orioles, received five hundred and thirty seven votes, making him one of the most popular players in the history of baseball.
Aside from the above-mentioned hall of fame awardees, there are quite a number of famous baseball players that has truly made baseball one of the most popular sports in history. Baseball is a sport that has started years and years ago. From the 1940’s, one of the most famous baseball players of the 1940’s Roger Bresnahan. He was considered of the most versatile players in the history of baseball in the twentieth century. He was able to play all the nine major positions of a baseball game, from over a number of teams, during his whole seventeen years of the baseball industry. But it was his being a very skill defensive player, along with the most disciplined skills that led Branch Rickey and John McGraw to describe Bresnahan as one of the best baseball catchers ever recorded.
Another famous baseball player is Lou Brock who played for the Chicago Cubs from 1961-1964, and the Saint Louise Cardinals from 1964-1979. He was recognized as the best base runners in the history of baseball. He was the one who helped in revolutionizing the art and the science of base running, where he was able to total more than nine hundred stolen bases of the nineteen years in professional baseball. He was awarded six times for the All Star Selections. He was also the one that helped the Saint Louis Cardinals to be able to join the National League as well as the World Series Championship, following his accumulated hits of almost three thousand.
George Bratt is another famous baseball player in the late 1990’s. He played for the Kansas City Royals from 1973 to 1993, and considered as the very first baseball player in history to accumulate more than three thousand hits, three hundred home runs, six hundred doubles, one hundred triples, and more than two hundred stolen bases. He was able to earn the American League Most Valuable Player Award, the Gold Glove award, along with three more batting titles because of his batting average of .390.
In 2003, Gary Carter was also given a Hall of Fame Award for being one of the most famous baseball players in history. He was a player of the Montreal Expos in 1974-1984, the New York Mets from 1985-1989, the San Francisco giants in 1990, and the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1991. He excelled both in the defensive and the offensive force. He was awarded three times for the Gold Glove Award. He belted more than three hundred home runs during his nineteen seasons in the major league baseball.
There are absolutely a number of other famous baseball players. Because baseball is still very popular up to these days, it is no surprise that as time pass by, more and more famous baseball players are born and discovered.