All Time Greatest Left-fielders

All Time Great Per Position
 

 

Ranking the Left Fielders

Joe DiMaggio once said that it “wasn’t possible to describe just how great Stan Musial was.” Musial was “The Man” in St. Louis, leading the Cardinals to pennants in four of his first five seasons, winning three Most Valuable Player awards and seven batting titles. He ranks at the top of a very talented group of left-fielders.

 

♦  Best facial hair, Foster ⇒
♦  Most competitive, Gibson ⇒
♦  Best player/manager, Clarke ⇒

Leftfield Factoids:

Pirates’ left fielder Ralph Kiner hit two walk-off grand slams in his career… During the 1935 World Series against the Cubs, Goose Goslin kept an entire rabbit in the clubhouse, figuring if a rabbit’s foot was good luck, then an entire rabbit must be even better. Goslin delivered the Series-winning hit in Game Six (Listen to the game).

Best at running uphill

During Lewis’s tenure in Boston patrolling left field, Fenway Park featured a ten-foot-high mound that formed an incline in front of the left field wall, now better know as the Green Monster. He mastered the incline to such an extent that it was nicknamed “Duffy’s Cliff.”
Duffy Lewis’s page ⇒

Quotable

“I think if you come to the ballpark and you see Carl Crawford hit a triple, you’ve had a pretty good day. Because when he hits the ball down the line, or in the gap, he’s thinking three. He never thinks two. He breaks [for a] triple. He wants triple, he takes triple.”
— Joe Maddon
Carl Crawford’s page ⇒

Best throwing arms

1. Bob Johnson
2. Bo Jackson
3. Carl Yastrzemski

Best Bunters

1. Jimmy Sheckard
2. George Burns
3. Heinie Manush
4. Duffy Lewis

Best of the Unranked

Jesse Burkett
Bob Johnson
Frank Howard
Sherry Magee
Bobby Veach
Moises Alou
George Burns
Joe Carter
Willie Horton
Jeff Heath
Greg Luzinski

Most controversial

1. Barry Bonds
2. Joe Jackson
3. Dave Kingman
4. Albert Belle
5. Manny Ramirez

Best Flychasers

1. Barry Bonds
2. Carl Yastrzemski
3. Alex Gordon
4. Max Carey

Best leadoff men

1. Rickey Henderson
2. Jimmy Sheckard
3. Tim Raines

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TOP 30 LEFT FIELDERS OF ALL TIME

 

1 Barry Bonds
2 Ted Williams
3 Stan Musial
4 Rickey Henderson
5 Carl Yastrzemski
6 Tim Raines
7 Ed Delahanty
8 Manny Ramirez
9 Al Simmons
10 Fred Clarke
11 Pete Rose
12 Goose Goslin
13 Minnie Minoso
14 Willie Stargell
15 Billy Williams
16 Monte Irvin
17 Ralph Kiner
18 Joe Medwick
19 Zack Wheat
20 Charlie Keller
21 Joe Kelley
22 George Foster
23 Harry Stovey
24 Lance Berkman
25 Jim Rice
26 Roy White
27 Jose Cruz
28 Lou Brock
29 Albert Belle
30 Heinie Manush

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