GAME: Link baseball players together
 

A thread similar to this was started in Tilted Nonsense involving actors, and I want to try the same thing with baseball players.

The way this game works is that I will post two ball players' names and you have to try to link the two through various other shared teammates. Then, you get to post the next two names.

For example: Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron

Babe Ruth played with Ray Mueller on the Boston Braves
Ray Mueller played with Lew Burdette on the Boston Braves
Lew Burdette played with Hank Aaron on the Milwaukee Braves

Easy enough.


Now, here goes:
Barry Bonds and Reggie Jackson

Reggie Jackson played with Dave Righetti on the 1979 New York Yankees
Dave Righetti played with Barry Bonds on the 1993 San Francisco Giants

Stan Musial and Hideo Nomo

Are we allowed to use online aids, because I know of at least one that does EXACTLY what you are doing.

Stan Musial played with Tim McCarver from 1959-63

McCarver played with Carlton Fisk from 1974-75

Fisk played with Robin Ventura from 1989-1993

Ventura has played with Hideo Nomo from 2003-present


Next one (in four or less connections): Lou Gehrig and Curt Schilling

Four or less will be tough, if not impossible. I got it in 6. And I didn't use the "online aid." But I did use rosters that I found online for the dates.

Lou Gehrig played with Joe Dimaggio from '36-'39
Mickey Mantle played with Dimaggio in 1951
Bill Robinson played with Mickey Mantle from '67-'68
Mike Schmidt played with Bill Robinson in 1982
Darren Daulton played with Mike Schmidt from '83-'89
Curt Schillling played with Darren Daulton from '92-'96

Someone could try to figure out the Gehrig/Schilling one better than I did,
or let's go with:

Bob Uecker and BJ Upton

Gehrig -- Joe Dimaggio -- Yogi Berra -- Tug McGraw -- Darren Daulton -- Schilling

Berra played with McGraw on the '65 Mets, McGraw played one season, 1983, with Daulton.

Uecker and Upton? easy.

Uecker played with Phil Niekro on the '67 Braves
Niekro played with Fred McGriff on the '87 Blue Jays
McGriff sat on the bench in late July with Upton right after he was called up.


Next one: Cy Young and Randy Johnson

Good God!

I'll be surprised if the list doesn't go through Minnie Minoso or Bobo Newsom at some point....

It does:

Cy Young played with Joe Wood for the 1908 Boston Red Sox
Joe Wood played with Luke Sewell for the 1921 Cleveland Indians
Luke Sewell played with Mike Tresh for the 1938 Chicago White Sox
Mike Tresh played with Minnie Minoso for the 1949 Cleveland Indians
Minnie Minoso played with Steve Trout for the 1980 Chicago White Sox
Steve Trout played with Randy Johnson for the 1989 Seattle Mariners

You can also take it through Hall of Famers Ted Williams, Early Wynn, and Bob Feller.

I admit, I used The Oracle of Baseball for this.

-Mikey

BOOOOOOOOOO!!! Typical Yankees fan taking the easy route. :lol:



We should also put a stipulation about not using Minoso. Especially considering he had a total of 10 at-bats from 1965 to 1980!

I agree Minoso is the key to many of the links and it is not right to count him. His appearances were purely publicity stunts by one Mr. Bill Veeck of Disco Demolition night fame. Minoso was 57 for crying out load in 1980.

Here's the next one: Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn in three connections or less

Ted Williams played with Frank Malzone ('60)
Malzone connected the Red Sox thread with Yaz (61).
Yaz played with Carlton Fisk on the Red Sox
Pudge played with Joey Cora on the White Sox in 91-93
Cora started with th Padres in '87 and played with Tony Gwynn

Ok here's a good one...... Lefty Grove to Tim Hudson

This is good but I find the oracle of Bacon to be alot more interesting.