Stan Musial

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 ⇒

1.   Stan Musial
2.   Ted Williams
3.   Rickey Henderson
4.   Barry Bonds
5.   Willie Stargell
6.   Carl Yastrzemski
7.   Al Simmons
8.   Joe Jackson
9.   Manny Ramirez
10.   Monte Irvin
11.   Tim Raines
12.   Minnie Minoso
13.   Lou Brock
14.   Ed Delahanty
15.   Billy Williams
16.   Ralph Kiner
17.   Goose Goslin
18.   Fred Clarke
19.   Jim Rice
20.   Jesse Burkett
21.   Joe Medwick
22.   Bob Johnson
23.   Frank Howard
24.   Charlie Keller
25.   Albert Belle
26.   Zack Wheat
27.   Jimmy Sheckard
28.   Sherry Magee
29.   Bobby Veach
30.   Heinie Manush
31.   Jose Cruz
32.   Moises Alou
33.   George Burns
34.   Roy White
35.   Joe Kelley
36.   Joe Carter
37.   George Foster
38.   Willie Horton
39.   Jeff Heath
40.   Greg Luzinski
41.   Kirk Gibson
42.   Charlie Jamieson
43.   Bob Meusel
44.   Del Ennis
45.   Dave Kingman
46.   Luis Gonzalez
47.   Tommy Harper
48.   Ken Williams
49.   Chick Hafey
50.   Lefty O' Doul
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
Jim O'Rourke
Dusty Baker
Topsy Harstel
Duffy Lewis
Augie Galan
Harry Stovey
Sid Gordon
B.J. Surhoff
Ron Gant
Most controversial
1. Barry Bonds
2. Joe Jackson
3. Dave Kingman
4. Albert Belle
5. Manny Ramirez

Two for the Hall
Minnie Minoso
Lefty O'Doul
Best Flychasers
1. Joe Rudi
2. Minnie Minoso
3. Carl Yastrzemski
4. Joe Jackson

Best leadoff men
1. Rickey Henderson
2. Jimmy Sheckard
3. Tim Raines
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.
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 ⇒

"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 ⇒
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