Thank you for watching! Making these videos always puts achievements into a historical perspective. It's unreal how talented Ichiro was for so many years!
Fanatics hate D.J. because he's just 2 handsome 😂. I Am guilty of that myself. The guy played baseball all his life. He's a legend. Great argument CAM 23.
I'm glad you enjoyed! I highly recommend checking out "The League" documentary if you want to learn more about the great players that never got their chance in MLB
Frankly, I believe the most impressive thing about Nolan is despite ALL of his MLB accolades, he remained a humble, quiet rancher at heart! He's a very nice, approachable and decent man!! I was fortunate enough to be able to watch several TCU games with both Nolan and Tom Grieve when their sons were both pitching for the Horned Frogs in the 90s. I had recently separated from the Navy and was working at TCU. They didn't pay overtime so any extra work I did was compensated with time off. I saved that time for watching baseball in the spring. As a lifelong baseball fanatic and also a huge Nolan Ryan fan, I immediately recognized both of them during one afternoon game on campus. I meekly approached 2 famous and accomplished former athletes just to tell them how much I appreciated their play. Instead of stating that I was undoubtedly disturbing them, I was invited to sit with them and talk baseball! They were seemingly just fathers watching their sons play baseball, and boy could they talk baseball!! Eventually Nolan was hired as a restricted-earnings coach so he didn't have to remain in the stands. Still it was an incredibly enjoyable experience while it lasted and it just made me that much of a bigger Nolan Ryan fan. Oh, and Tom Grieve was a pretty cool guy at the time, too.
Remember, during Ichiro insane rookie campaign in 01, in the NL a kid named Albert Pujols was doing insane things himself in his rookie campaign. 2001 was quite a year for baseball.
Pudge Rodríguez was pretty good.... 14-time All-Star 13-time gold glover, 7-time silver slugger, league MVP....almost 3000,hits 127 SB as a catcher with 311 HR. The most impressive thing I think is he caught every year he was in the league till the age of 39....He did DH for only 57 games but unlike most catchers, he never stopped catching to the tune of 2427 games which is insane considering he had 2543 career games Nobody caught more games than Pudge ....also over a ten year span of his career he carried a 317 BA which for catchers is pretty rare
I went to a Giants vs Cardinals game during this era. Watching McGwire and Bonds take BP was incredible. The sound of the crowd after each bomb was incredible to witness.
THEN it will never be known or even fairly assessed - huh? Many great players - either white or black (Hispanic and Japanese).... whose to say was REALLY BETTER .... personally I saw Johnny Bench play - great - I also saw Yogi Berra in his last years - NONE WERE BETTER than Berra. Perspective is all we have.
