who are the best players who share your birthday?

Mel Ott, Ron Gant, Terry Steinbach

Red Schoendienst, John Tudor, Scott Erickson, PAT TABLER

also: Puchy Delgado, whose name is in desperate need of an N -- maybe Red can give one up!

luis tiant is the clear winner and after that i guess it's papelbon. then hal schumacher. the most recent "decent" players are dale sveum and brook jacoby, which just reminds me of being pissed off whenever i opened a pack of baseball cards and saw their utility mugs staring at me instead of a griffey jr card.

Hall of Famer Ted Lyons, Ray Knight, Spaceman Lee, Count Sensenderfer

joe randa and some guy named ty cobb.

ha -- omar, you'll be happy to know that I found a Griffy Jr rookie card in the first overpriced '89 Upper Deck pack I bought (and then traded it to my BFF for a load of shit -- fuck you Todd Zeile)

u coulda been Pirates GM all these years!

lol too-large chunks of my allowances were wasted on "investments" in the likes of zeile, steve avery, and future cubs star ty griffin. i did get some temp bank with david justice and frank thomas w/those leaf rookies. ^_^

Keep hope alive, Morbs -- Toronto or SF might need one soon!

Ben McDonald & Phil Plantier RIP

I can't believe someone beat me to 12/28. BJ Ryan and Bill Hall are active players I basically enjoy as well.

ben mcdonald was the proto-prior

julio franco

Ivey Wingo, Reds backstop, of the championship 1919 world series team. John Bowker, who is .364/.400/.864 career. Clearly both awesome players! Also, Alan Ashby who caught a record 3 no-hitters, that must require some skill!

gooooooose gossage

Ugh: only Maury Wills, Earl Wilson of any real note (Eddie Gaurdado, I guess?)

Also Spec Shea, aka The Naugatuck Nugget.

xpost my mitt is a Goose 'signed' edition.

Early Wynn the only January 6er of note, followed not-so-closely by Norm Charlton and Ralph Branca. "Active" players include Casey Fossum and Scott Thorman. Eww.

Cal Ripken is most notable although Harry Hooper was the pride of Santa Cruz.

Davey Johnson

Crab Burkett (same year, too!).

Happy SABRthday, Doctor Morbius!

Charley Radbourn, Joe Blanton, Derek "Operation: Shutdown" Bell

Derek "Operation: Shutdown" Bell

jealous!!!

only guy born on my day/year is '89 Cubs great Les Lancaster

no one born on my day/year has made the majors.

and at 35 i'm doubting anyone will.

Pronk and Crazy Carl.

http://assets.espn.go.com/i/page2/photos/050425fielder.jpg

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/10/18/better.half/p1_spiezio.jpg

Data mining, anyone? Oh well: Jeremy Affeldt, Mark Ellis, David Lamb, Tony Graffanino, and the Brooks Kieschnick Experiment.

Harmon Killebrew is the only fool of any note.

lmao, every time i look at these fuccn lists of olde-thymey ballplayers i completely lose my shit @ how amazing/impossible their names are. these are some of the glorious souls who share my day of birth:

Nippy Jones
Dizzy Trout
Skeeter Shelton
Farmer Steelman (LOL WUT)
Heinie Reitz

lol i got some good ones too:

Biggs Wehde
Bubber Jonnard
Socks Seybold
Hi Church
Chief Zimmer
Bill Clay http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:N5128qCbvPJcBM:http://www.arcanegazebo.net/images/hans1.jpg

Chris Young (SD) (same year)
Tejada

lolz:

Howard Craghead
Doc Ozmer (spider man 4 amirite)
Heinie Heitmuller (A+++++++)
Tip O'Neill
Lip Pike

tho Tejada's is fake now right lol

Dwight Smith, same year

Edgardo Alfonzo
Jeff Blauser
Ed Kranepool
Jerry Remy
Bucky Harris (HoF mgr)

hey - mookieproof and i have the same b-day!!!
and born on the exact same day/year: Brian Tallet.

One dude on my list, Slim Harriss, has a pretty sweet list of similars:

1. Ray Benge (952)
2. Jack Kramer (947)
3. Joe Oeschger (938)
4. Elam Vangilder (935)
5. Jack Fisher (931)
6. Rick Mahler (929)
7. Sid Hudson (928)
8. Max Butcher (927)
9. George Blaeholder (926)
10. Joe Shaute (926)

One HOFer -- Ryne Sandberg

other notables:

George Uhle
Harvey Haddix
a few WWII scrubs

I'm waiting for the first person w/ Firpo Marberry

PETE ROSE (jr)

Morbs, you're one day off from Mingus.

Oh sorry, wrong type of player.

I'll lead with Pedro, Juan Soto, and Bobby Thomson.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/birthdays.cgi?date=10-25

(Was looking for a general birthday thread to say that Yaz celebrated his 80th yesterday.)

Justin Turner is moving up the list for my bday, which is weird because he looks like a chunky version of me

unfortunately thermo and i have to share a day with

http://probaseballtrainingsecrets.com/images/scott%20spiezio.jpg

We should have a general birthday thread for baseball players...Tony Kubek turns 90 today. He was such a big part of my baseball TV history: first with Curt Gowdy and Joe Garagiola on NBC, then as part of the Jays team for many years, paired up with Don Chevrier and Fergie Oliver (to whom Kubek could be extremely condescending, quite undeserved I used to think). He also wrote a short piece on broadcasting--all the little things he would look for and pass onto the viewer--for the 1970 Zander Hollander guide, first one I ever bought.