The Pecan Park Eagle

Honus Wagner is my only right-handed selection to hold the bat in this way at business time..

After doing the lefty swingers yesterday, I had a little more time to give my nighties some thought. ( just didn’t give myself enough time to recall that Bob Lemon hit left-handed, not right. This is not my week for memory without double checks. Thank you David Munger for the head bounce. I picked Bob Gibson as my new right=handed hitting pitcher because, even though he hit in Mendoza Land, he was still the amazing Bob Gibson when he took the mound. Plus, I liked the idea of the “Double Gibson” battery.

That being said, I’m going with what I think the greatest right-handed hitters do best. Call ’em the “Bash-Full Boys” or the “Bruise Brothers Supreme” and we still have a club that could most often beat another team senseless with long jacks. I granted myself the liberty of choosing the liberty of taking the Negro Leagues icon Josh Gibson as my right-handed hitting catcher in spite of the missing presence of comparable stats. This guy is simply too big to ignore as a legend of what might have been – had it not been for the damnable color line.

Please post your choices too. There is room for more than one of these great teams, depending on our awareness and perspective on what makes for greatness in a hitter, I’ll hang firm with my picks. As an actual club manager, I’d be happy to send this team out to play seven days a week and twice on Sundays.

Starters By Position

 Pitcher: Bob Gibson (.201, 24 HR, 144 RBI)

 Catcher:  Josh Gibson (Negro Leagues: 426, Gazillion HR & RBI)

1st Base:  Jimmie Foxx (.325, 534 HR, 1,922 RBI)

2nd Base: Rogers Hornsby (.358. 301 HR, 1,318 RBI)

3rd Base: Mike Schmidt (.267, 548 HR, 1,595 RBI)

Shortstop: Honus Wagner (.329, 101 HR, 7223 SB)

Left Field: Hank Aaron (.305. 755 HR. 2,297 RBI)

Center Field: Willie Mays (.302, 660 HR, 1.903 RBI)

Right Field: Roberto Clemente (.317, 240 HR, 1,305 RBI)

Game Day Lineup

Clemente, RF

Hornsby, 2B

Mays, CF

J. Gibson, C

Aaron, LF

Foxx, 1B

Schmidt, 3b

Wagner, SS

B. Gibson, P

Tags: greatest right-handed hitters

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