Philadelphia A's All-Time Team

[yanks0714]

I'm preparing to play and all-time greats post-1955 simulated baseball game on DiamondMind.

Just to get some feedback on the players for the Philidelphia A's, this is team I've put together:

2 players each postion + 11 pitchers (players had to have played the majority of the careers with the A's)

1B > Jimmie Foxx / Ferris Fain or Harry Davis or Stuffy McInnis
2B > Eddie Collins / Danny Murphy
3B > Frank Baker / Jimmy Dyles
SS > Eddie Joost / Jack Barry
LF > Indian Bob Johnson / Topsy Hartsel
CF > Al Simmons / Mule Haas
RF > Bing Miller / Socks Sybold
C > Mickey Cochrane / Wally Schang?
P > Lefty Grove, George Earnshaw, Eddie Plank, Chief Bender, Rube Waddell, Rube Walberg, Eddie Rommel, Bobby Shantz, Harry Krause, and Jack Coombs

What do you think? Any I should dump and/or replace?

[LouGehrig]

How about Wally Moses?

Jack Lapp had a good but limited year in 1911.

The 1911 team was great.

[PhillyA_man]

Al Simmons played the bulk of his career in Left. He played his first four years in Philly in CF than later again in 1935 & 1936. Mule Haas was basically the A's CF from 1928ish to 1932. In 1928 he shared time in CF with Bing Miller and Tris Speaker.

[KCGHOST]

I guess I am a little slow, but if you are getting ready for "post-1955 simulated" game why are you picking players who are basically pre-1955?

[Soxrock]

I'm preparing to play and all-time greats post-1955 simulated baseball game on DiamondMind.

Just to get some feedback on the players for the Philidelphia A's, this is team I've put together:

2 players each postion + 11 pitchers (players had to have played the majority of the careers with the A's)

1B > Jimmie Foxx / Ferris Fain or Harry Davis or Stuffy McInnis
2B > Eddie Collins / Danny Murphy
3B > Frank Baker / Jimmy Dyles
SS > Eddie Joost / Jack Barry
LF > Indian Bob Johnson / Topsy Hartsel
CF > Al Simmons / Mule Haas
RF > Bing Miller / Socks Sybold
C > Mickey Cochrane / Wally Schang?
P > Lefty Grove, George Earnshaw, Eddie Plank, Chief Bender, Rube Waddell, Rube Walberg, Eddie Rommel, Bobby Shantz, Harry Krause, and Jack Coombs

What do you think? Any I should dump and/or replace?

Well, my picks are

1B) Jimmie Foxx
2B) Eddie Collins
3B) Home run Baker
SS) Eddie Joost
LF) Topsy Hartsel
RF) Socks Seybold (1902 AL HR Champion with 16)
C) Mickey Cochrane
P) In order
Ace) Lefty Grove
2) Rube Waddell
3) Jack Coombs
4) Bobby Shantz (1952 AL MVP)
5) Eddie Plank

Sorry Earnshaw and Plank, your in the 'pen as occasional 6 and 7 starters.

I take Jack Coombs because he could play in the field as well, like a not-as-good version of Babe Ruth

[philliesfiend55]

The Phillies began a Wall Of Fame in 1978, when they were still at Veterans Stadium. They have picked one Phillie each year since 1978, with the exception of 1983, and they picked one Athletic in each of those years through 2003. When the Phils moved to Citizens Bank Park in 2004, the annual Phillies selections to the Wall Of Fame continued but the Athletics selections were terminated. A plaque on a statue of Connie Mack outside the new stadium with the names of each Athletic selected between 1978 and 2003 is all that remains of traces of the A's at Citizens Bank Park. The plaques were sold to the Philadelphia Athletics Museum in Hatboro, PA, a suburb just north of Philly.

The annual A's selections are a good place to start in selecting an All-Philly A's team:

(selection, position, Year of Selection)

Connie Mack- Mgr. -1978; Jimmy Foxx - 1B '79; Lefty Grove - P '80; Al Simmons - OF '81; Mickey Cochrane - C '82; Jimmy Dykes 3B-2B '84; Eddie Plank - P '85; Rube Waddell -P '86; Eddie Collins- 2B-'87; Wally Moses -OF '88; Bob Johnson - OF '89; Elmer Valo - OF '90; Chief Bender - P '91; Jack Coombs - P '92; Frank "Home Run" Baker - 3B '93; Bobby Shantz - P '94; Eddie Joost - SS '95; Ed Rommell - P '96; Feris Fain -1B '97; Bing Miller - OF '98; Sam Chapman - OF '99; George Earnshaw - P - 2000; Gus Zernial - OF '01; Rube Walberg - P '02; Rube Oldring - OF '03.

One can only speculate who would have been selected in the next few years, if the Phillies hadn't discontinued the Athletics portion of the Wall Of Fame. These 25 men provide a core for anyone trying to define the ultimate A's team in Philadelphia.

[Dodgerfan1]

Well, my picks are

1B) Jimmie Foxx
2B) Eddie Collins
3B) Home run Baker
SS) Eddie Joost
LF) Topsy Hartsel
RF) Socks Seybold (1902 AL HR Champion with 16)
C) Mickey Cochrane
P) In order
Ace) Lefty Grove
2) Rube Waddell
3) Jack Coombs
4) Bobby Shantz (1952 AL MVP)
5) Eddie Plank

Sorry Earnshaw and Plank, your in the 'pen as occasional 6 and 7 starters.

I take Jack Coombs because he could play in the field as well, like a not-as-good version of Babe Ruth

Soxrock, why would you take Hartsel over Al Simmons?? Am I missing something? Or did you overlook that? I'd also take Bender over Shantz.

[penncentralpete]

Eddie Collins....