Posted by lastinspace2 on 5/17/2016 10:43:00 AM (view original):
The AA was a small mutual aid started in 1935 in Akron Ohio by a Bill Wilson and a Dr. Bob Smith. When Rollie spilled the beans Mr. Wilson decided to go on a publicity tour and AA grew from there. Anonymity is one of the cornerstones of AA, no one would want their name attached to being an alchoholic.

i beg to differ

Catcher #5 was none other than...Jason Kendall

Where was Ted Simmons? I am shocked he's not in the top 5.

Not a famous baseball saying:

It's not over till the fat lady finishes her nachos and flips over to SportsCenter.

Rank	Player (yrs, age)	Def. Games as C	Throws
1.	Ivan Rodriguez (21)	2427	R
2.	Carlton Fisk+ (24)	2226	R
3.	Bob Boone (19)	2225	R
4.	Gary Carter+ (19)	2056	R
5.	Jason Kendall (15)	2025	R
6.	Tony Pena (18)	1950	R
7.	Brad Ausmus (18)	1938	R
8.	Jim Sundberg (16)	1927	R
9.	Al Lopez+ (19)	1918	R
10.	Benito Santiago (20)	1917	R
11.	A.J. Pierzynski (19, 39)	1896	R
12.	Lance Parrish (19)	1818	R
13.	Rick Ferrell+ (18)	1806	R
14.	Gabby Hartnett+ (20)	1793	R
15.	Ted Simmons (21)	1771	R
16.	Johnny Bench+ (17)	1742	R
17.	Ray Schalk+ (18)	1727	R
18.	Bill Dickey+ (17)	1708	R
19.	Yogi Berra+ (19)	1699	R
20.	Rick Dempsey (24)	1633	R
21.	Mike Piazza+ (16)	1630	R
22.	Jim Hegan (17)	1629	R
23.	Deacon McGuire (26)	1612	R
24.	Bill Freehan (15)	1581	R
25.	Jorge Posada (17)	1574	R
26.	Sherm Lollar (18)	1571	R
27.	Luke Sewell (20)	1562	R
28.	Ernie Lombardi+ (17)	1544	R
29.	Steve O'Neill (17)	1532	R
30.	Darrell Porter (17)	1506	R
31.	Jason Varitek (15)	1488	R
32.	Rollie Hemsley (19)	1482	R
33.	Del Crandall (16)	1479	R
34.	John Roseboro (14)	1476	R
35.	Yadier Molina (13, 33)	1474	R
36.	Mickey Cochrane+ (13)	1451	R
37.	Ramon Hernandez (15)	1447	R
38.	Wally Schang (19)	1435	R
39.	Muddy Ruel (19)	1410	R
40.	Mike Scioscia (13)	1395	R
41.	Johnny Edwards (14)	1392	R
42.	Tim McCarver (21)	1387	R
43.	Terry Steinbach (14)	1381	R
44.	Terry Kennedy (14)	1378	R
45.	Gus Mancuso (17)	1360	R
46.	Javy Lopez (15)	1351	R
	Jimmie Wilson (18)	1351	R
48.	Jerry Grote (16)	1348	R
49.	Bob O'Farrell (21)	1338	R
50.	Sandy Alomar (20)	1324

Simmons played 450+ games at 1B or DH, and a few in the OF...

Had more hits and RBI than Fisk. Pudge was a better defensive player for sure. My guess is that if Simmons had a WS ring or two he would get more serious HOF consideration. What I didn't know was that he was on the STL '68 team, having been a late season callup.

thing stands out to me from that list is RRRRRR

Not many left handed throwing catchers...

What New York Yankee hit 60 home runs in a single professional season before Babe Ruth did it?

I think Lazzeri did it in the PCL one year....

Lazzeri is correct, he hit 60 in the PCL in 1925. However, Tony played in 197 games, so give him the Asterisk of Shame.

Barry Bonds. UP UP AND AWAY...

Posted by crazystengel on 5/29/2016 2:17:00 AM (view original):
Lazzeri is correct, he hit 60 in the PCL in 1925. However, Tony played in 197 games, so give him the Asterisk of Shame.

That is just plain mean crazystengel.

Posted by crazystengel on 5/29/2016 2:26:00 AM (view original):
Name the player who hit the most career regular season HR off Greg Maddux?

I would have guessed Bonds as well, but according to baseball-reference.com, that is not correct. Bonds hit 9 off Maddux, but another player hit 10.