Right Fielder
Right Fielder
For a time, Dave Parker was the undisputed best player in Major League Baseball.
And though his career took more than a few unexpected twists, the numbers Parker left behind tell the story of a player who could do it all.
“I was a five-tool player,” Parker said.
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Manager
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When Jim Leyland took over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Nov. 20, 1985, he entered his first big league managerial job with a one-year contract and a team coming off a 104-loss season.
When Leyland walked away from his last job as a big league manager in 2013, he owned three Manager of the Year Awards, a 1997 World Series championship ring and the respect of nearly everyone in baseball. Now, he has a place in Cooperstown.
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Executive
Executive
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In so many ways, baseball is one of the few sports where physical size is not an automatic benefit or detriment. In basketball, height is a tangible that leads to success. In football, size is often viewed as a virtue. But in baseball, greatness comes in all sizes and packages.
With this in mind, perhaps no Hall of Famer is larger in stature than Pittsburgh Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss.
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Right Fielder
Right Fielder
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“He played a kind of baseball that none of us had ever seen before… As if it were a form of punishment for everyone else on the field.” – Roger Angell
The numbers he assembled over 18 big league seasons tell the story of a complete ballplayer.
The story of Roberto Clemente, however, goes beyond mere numbers.
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Center Fielder
Center Fielder
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Many Hall of Famers made it to the big leagues with their bats or their arms. Max Carey did it with his legs.
Carey, nicknamed “Scoops”, set a National League record with 738 career stolen bases and led the NL in steals 10 times.
“He was just as fast between the ears as he was with his feet,” said sportswriter Joe Williams. “That's what made him harder to stop than a run in a silk stocking.”
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Left Fielder
Left Fielder
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Twenty-four year-olds are not often found in leadership positions. But at that age, Fred Clarke fit right in as a player and skipper of a major league club.
As one of the first “boy-managers”, Clarke starred in left field and led his teams to win from the field and the dugout.
1st Baseman
1st Baseman
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His durability was so impressive that almost 80 years after his death, Jake Beckley’s name appeared on the computer screens of baseball writers across the world.
But Beckley’s ability to play every day is only part of the story of the powerful first baseman whose standards still top the record books.
Beckley played 19 National League seasons with the Pirates, Giants, Reds and Cardinals and one season with Pittsburgh in the Players League from 1888-1907. He played 2,383 of his 2,392 games at first base, setting a big league standard that was not eclipsed until 1994.
Right Fielder
Right Fielder
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"I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him." – Burleigh Grimes
For 14 seasons, brothers Paul and Lloyd Waner were synonymous with Pittsburgh Pirates baseball. Paul "Big Poison" Waner patrolled right field for the Pirates from 1926 through ’40, while younger brother Lloyd, known as "Little Poison," manned center for all but one of those seasons.
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Center Fielder
Center Fielder
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Lloyd Waner totaled 223 hits as a rookie with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1927. And over the course of his 18 big league seasons, Waner never stopped hitting.
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Shortstop
Shortstop
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Hall of Fame skipper John McGraw called Honus Wagner “The nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.”
Wagner played 21 seasons, primarily with his hometown team the Pittsburgh Pirates, and was the total package. He hit for average and power and could change the dynamics of a game on the base paths and in the field: He played every position on the diamond in his major league career except for catcher.
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