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Jim Leyland?
Question:How much would a Jim Leyland 1987 Topps baseball card go for? It is surrounded by very well brought-up contion.
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probably 5 cents to 10 cents maybe 5 to 10 dollars if its grade gem mint but it would cost more to win it graded than the card itself is worth. Its a adjectives i'm sure.
80's cards are junk except for really pious rookies. sorry.
In your judgment, who are the 3 best baseball players within MLB history?
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1. Ruth
2. Cobb
3. Mays
4. Nolan Ryan
5. Ted Williams
6. Barry Bonds
7. Pete Rose
8. Roberto Clemente
9. Ricky Henderson
10. Roger Clemens
babe ruth, ty cobb, pete rose. there is another i can't ponder of his name...
Mark Fydrich - the bird
Ty cobb
Babe Ruth
kobe,wade&nash... LOL
Hitters- Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds
Pitchers- Cy Young, Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens
Best Overall- Babe ruth, Hank Aaron, Roger Clemens
Babe Ruth, Cy Young, Ted Williams
1. Hammerin' Hank
2. The great bambino
3. Roger Clemens
1. Babe Ruth
2. Ted Williams
3. Willie Mays
the babe, willie mays, mickey
pitchers: walter johnson, nolan ryan, rocket
Babe Ruth
Cy Young
Sandy Koufax
Ernie Banks.
Pete Rose.
Mickey Mantle.
Impossible to answer, but I'll bestow it two shots:
Naturals: Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays
Numbers: Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig
position player - catcher josh gibson of the homestead grays.
pitcher - leroy paige of the kansas city monarchs
position player -2nd baseman jackie robinson of the monarchs and brooklyn dodgers.
Ruth, Nolan Ryan, and Lou Brock. The players that were "Men among Boys" contained by their playing days and that were competent to change the winter sport with an at bat, a stolen underpinning, or a strikeout.
Babe Ruth, Pete Rose and Hank Aaron.
Hank Aaron, Pete Rose, and Willie Mays. Aaron was the best power hitter of adjectives time, Pete Rose the best contact hitter of all time, and Willie Mays be the best all around player of adjectives time.
Ruth, Lefty Grove, and Willie Mays.
Though I could change my mind roughly Mays and Grove tomorrow. There's a small coterie of about 15-20 name that would rotate with regularity.
Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Walter Johnson
Willie Mays
Rogers Hornsby
Ted Willams
Babe Ruth
Willie Mays
Ted Williams
Why are near four ball and solely three strikes surrounded by baseball?
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I'd say it's to craft the game more interesting and awaken batters to swing the bat. A strikeout contained by a key situation can be exciting, but a step, even with the basis loaded is boring. By making a batter look at 4 balls to some extent than 3, it encourages the player to swing which results contained by action on the pen.
Allowing 4 balls also protects the pitcher by allowing him to try to variety good pitches. If a pitcher individual gets 3 ball, he does not have the luxury of throwing pitches on the corners and throwing pitches out of the strike zone contained by hopes that the batter chases the pitch.
its more difficult to pitch a ball later a strike, so therefore you entail less strikes than ball to make it more generous for the pitcher. and the batter can foul of as many strikes as compulsory which makes it do for the batter.
thats just the style the game go
Never really thought about it -- turn far enough spinal column into the olde dayes and there be different numbers needed for the walk or the K -- but the current 4 and 3 seem to be working pretty well.
thems the rules. but it used to be 9 ball way put a bet on in the daylight
Its harder to pitch a strike
when baseball first started because there be no field lights they simply allowed three strikes and four balls to shorten the activity up.
Will the K.C. Royals ever be a triumphant troop again?
Question:Alright, I know that they wilI probably never enjoy the nouns that they had throughout most of the 80's... But how tons more seasons are they going to finish surrounded by last place near 90+ losses!? I know that the '07 season is still young, but I really don't see them shooting up this year. It's getting harder and harder to be a fan.
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you gotta stick near yer team! it may be decades until they're worthy again, but you gotta hangagainst
keep the hope -- consider the Cubs
Short answer: Yes with an if
Long answer: No beside a but
They haven't been matching since 85, everyone knows that. "Most of the 80s"? Hmmm...
The Royals are the bottom of the vat in MLB. Nobody requirements to play in KC but everyone requirements to get rotten the team and credit their careers. Why? Money, unsurprisingly. There's no money put into the Royals franchise. The Kauffmans were tremendous relatives but they didn't do for the Royals what Lamar Hunt did for the Chiefs...INVEST in your squad.
If I still lived in KC, I'd move about see the Royals play. But now I live somewhere else beside a winning squad. Playoffs, Golden Gloves, MVPs, we have it adjectives..even a couple Championships.
Of course they will be.Assuming they aren't contracted or some crazy thing similar to that they will be good agian someday.No squad is bad forever.
The Royals own benefited from a number of primo draft picks and enjoy a talented however unproven roster. Put them contained by a division that isn't the AL Central and they would have a respectable year this year. But since the Tigers, Twins, White Sox and Indians adjectives have 90-win potential, you're not gonna see them break .500 for at tiniest a year or two.
Realistically unless major league baseball go out of business or the team change its name every troop will have a triumphant season eventually, but owners have found out they can put together more money by not trying to be a contender and paying there adjectives star players like the marlins and royals its disappointed that they have turned america's fad into no more than a corporate business.
Right now, they are not a champion team but perchance within the subsequent 5 to 10 years, they will be a good troop. They have potential as far as hitting go but they need some better pitching and when they do attain some better pitching, maybe next, they will be a good squad.
in a few years if they carry the right players
They are greatly improved this year. There is legal talent at just roughly every position, and the beginnings of a decent rotation. But alot of the talent is infantile, so some of the guys need a bit more seasoning. Also, wait until Dotel comes past its sell-by date the DL, that should make a difference. I give attention to KC is coming along just fine. My solitary concern is that unless baseball adopts some characteristics of MEANINGFUL revenue sharing, or some kind of cap/floor is put within place, that guys like Teahan, DeJesus,Buck, Gordon or Butler will be purchased by the reflective pockets once they become 5 year free agents. Have you seen Jorge De La Rosa pitch lately? That's a function for optimism right there. Even if the Royals don't become a victorious team this season, they are much enhanced and are a team to be reckon with, and will be even better subsequent season.
Dayton Moore the GM came from the Atlanta association and has faintly rebuilt the fruit farm system that was pretty much depleted when he arrived and expect the Royals may be a few years from seriously contending like they be in the 80s.
They do enjoy some promising offensive punch next to the likes of Gordon, Shealy, Teahen and DeJesus and a outstandingly underrated and beneath the radar catcher in John Buck.
I dream up the pitching staff will need some time however, nearby is no true ace on the staff but think near the prospects in the minors similar to Bannister they might be able to rework that around too in a few years. I guess my point is, be forgiving...it will take some time but do deliberate they have a promising adjectives. Our Milwaukee Brewers were also rans for years but kindly over the last 4 years pieces of the puzzle be put together thru the draft and the farm system and we saw promise of what might be possible finishing year and it looks like conceivably our patience may remuneration off this year.
Enjoy the season!
The Royals want to go out and spend change, they'll probably have to overpay. If the Royals could open out up their wallets on the free agent marketplace, that's one way to show the current players within your organization that maybe the upper management is becoming commited to turning the franchise around.
The Royals should also invest, invest, invest contained by strengthening their pitching. I think that's how you start bad building a team final towards being a sensation, you start with pitching as the first building block, along near adding a few knob hitters to your roster too somehow.
That's what I think.
I love the Royals, but I surmise its going to take a long time for them to turn the troop around. It all started going downhill when Kaufmann stopped running the squad and hit rock bottom after he died. After he died that crappy board of directors without a single baseball man on it took over and did serious violate to the franchise. From that point I figure it will pocket 20 years to turn it around, so we're looking at another 4-5 years of losing while slowly transitioning into mediocity. Once they start winning I chew over David Glass will start putting some more money into the team and consequently the'll be able to find some better players also. But like I said, we've probably get 4-5 yeras until that happens.
GO ROYALS!
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