All time Brooklyn Dodger Team

[WashingtonSenators]

what is your starting lineup?

[donzblock]

1B Frank Kellert
2B Bobby Morgan
3B Ransom Jackson
SS Don Zimmer
LF Don Thompson
CF Frenchy Bordagaray
RF Elmer Valo
C Rube Walker
P Chris Van Cuyk (L)
P Ben Wade (R)
RP Don Landrum

[Shotgun Shuba]

I will approach it seriously. The only problem, and the reason many are not responding, is that it is sort of obvious:

1st- Hodges....Hall worthy no, best Brook yes
2nd- Jackie... obvious
3rd- Cox?...no good choices...Mets can't find one either, it must be in the water
Short- The Captain......Duh
OF- Snider, Furillo, Wheat
Pitchers- Drysdale, Newk, Ersk and Fat Freddy
C- Campy

Skip- Alston.... Steady, Torre-like

[donzblock]

Cox would be an excellent choice on any team. Billy Cox was a terrific player. We have pointed out and extolled his virtues many times.

[Shotgun Shuba]

I want to replace Fat Freddy with Van Lingle Mungo. Fitzsimmons only had one good Dodger year. Please reflect this change when we battle the Martians in one series to settle it all.

[55 chmps]

1B- Gil Hodges HOF worthy but not there
2B- Jackie Robinson- fast, all around good player, played 10 more years, he'd have 3,000 hits easy
3B- Billy Cox - Not a lot of great third basemen. But he was pretty good.
SS- Pee Wee- Leader, enough said
CF- Duke- No Brainer
RF-Furillo- Bazooka for an arm, good bat
LF- Zach Wheat- fantastic player, great bat.
C- Roy Campanella- Great catcher, unbelievable hitter, one of the best catchers ever
SP- Newcombe, Drysdale, Koufax, Erskine

[Pghfan987]

Hello all-

I am doing a little bit of research compiling my own "all-time teams". I have to ask, why in the world isn't Dazzy Vance on everyone's rotation? I thought maybe it was because he was on the Brooklyn "Robins", not the "Dodgers" (even though it is the same franchise), but Zack Wheat is on here.

Now, this would be my all-time Dodgers team, both LA and Brooklyn:

C: Piazza
1B: Hodges
2B: J-Rob
SS: Pee Wee Reese
3B: Ron Cey
LF: Zack Wheat
CF: Duke Snider
RF: Carl Furillo

Bench:
C- Campanella (I want to start him, especially because of his 3 MVPs- but then someone will post Piazza's #s as a Dodger and "prove" that my intuition is wrong)
1B- Dolph Camilli
2B- Davy Lopes
SS- Maury Wills
CF- Willie Davis
RF (but mostly a PH)- Babe Herman

Rotation:
Koufax
Drysdale
Vance
Fernando Valenzuela
Don Sutton (mostly because of longevity/ career wins leader)

Bullpen
LRP-Newcombe
Hersheiser
Burleigh Grimes

MRP- Steve Howe
Jim Brewer

CP- Eric Gagne

What say you, Dodgers historians?

Mark

[zman]

My starting lineup sounds like a "me too" job but...

C Roy Camapanella
1B Gil Hodges
2B Jackie Robinson
SS Pee Wee Reese
3B Billy Cox
LF Zack Wheat
CF Duke Snider
RF Carl Furillo

Starting Pitchers...

Dazzy Vance
Burleigh Grimes
Don Newcombe
Carl Erskine


Relievers...

Joe Black
Clem Lebine

[DODGER DEB]

Originally Posted by Pghfan987

Hello all-

I am doing a little bit of research compiling my own "all-time teams". I have to ask, why in the world isn't Dazzy Vance on everyone's rotation? I thought maybe it was because he was on the Brooklyn "Robins", not the "Dodgers" (even though it is the same franchise), but Zack Wheat is on here.

Now, this would be my all-time Dodgers team, both LA and Brooklyn:

C: Piazza
1B: Hodges
2B: J-Rob
SS: Pee Wee Reese
3B: Ron Cey
LF: Zack Wheat
CF: Duke Snider
RF: Carl Furillo

Bench:
C- Campanella (I want to start him, especially because of his 3 MVPs- but then someone will post Piazza's #s as a Dodger and "prove" that my intuition is wrong)
1B- Dolph Camilli
2B- Davy Lopes
SS- Maury Wills
CF- Willie Davis
RF (but mostly a PH)- Babe Herman

Rotation:
Koufax
Drysdale
Vance
Fernando Valenzuela
Don Sutton (mostly because of longevity/ career wins leader)

Bullpen
LRP-Newcombe
Hersheiser
Burleigh Grimes

MRP- Steve Howe
Jim Brewer

CP- Eric Gagne

What say you, Dodgers historians?

Mark

You are making a grave error on OUR Forum, Mark!

OUR BROOKLYN DODGERS died on October 9, 1957. That "west coast group" does not belong attached to US in any way, size, shape or form! They are not part of US....and never will be!

So, if you want to know OUR (BROOKLYN DODGERS) all time team, you would first have to restrict your thread to just that "OUR BROOKLYN DODGERS".

c.

[Bklyn Boy since 1936]

Originally Posted by Pghfan987

Hello all-

I am doing a little bit of research compiling my own "all-time teams". I have to ask, why in the world isn't Dazzy Vance on everyone's rotation? I thought maybe it was because he was on the Brooklyn "Robins", not the "Dodgers" (even though it is the same franchise), but Zack Wheat is on here.

Now, this would be my all-time Dodgers team, both LA and Brooklyn:

C: Piazza
1B: Hodges
2B: J-Rob
SS: Pee Wee Reese
3B: Ron Cey
LF: Zack Wheat
CF: Duke Snider
RF: Carl Furillo

Bench:
C- Campanella (I want to start him, especially because of his 3 MVPs- but then someone will post Piazza's #s as a Dodger and "prove" that my intuition is wrong)
1B- Dolph Camilli
2B- Davy Lopes
SS- Maury Wills
CF- Willie Davis
RF (but mostly a PH)- Babe Herman

Rotation:
Koufax
Drysdale
Vance
Fernando Valenzuela
Don Sutton (mostly because of longevity/ career wins leader)

Bullpen
LRP-Newcombe
Hersheiser
Burleigh Grimes

MRP- Steve Howe
Jim Brewer

CP- Eric Gagne

What say you, Dodgers historians?

Mark

I'm confused, Mark. I checked your list of names for "All-Time Teams" for The BROOKLYN DODGERS and see several names that I never heard of. I checked and re-checked my BROOKLYN DODGERS archives and, still, I wasn't able to find any of those unrecognizable names. If you want to give us names from other teams, why not Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Hank Aaron, Stan Musial etc.?

[Flatbush Flock]

1st--Hodges
2nd--Robinson
Shortstop--Reese
3rd--Lavagetto
LF--Wheat
CF--Snider
RF--Dixie Walker
C--Campanella

RHP--Vance
LHP--Nap Rucker
RP--Labine

Reserves--Babe Herman, Furillo, Al Lopez, Gilliam

[strummer]

Accoring to a review of Duke Snider's (with Phil Pepe) new book, "Few and Chosen", his all-time team would have Reese, Robinson, Hodges, Campanella, with Vaughn at third, and leaving himself out, an outfield of Furillo, Reiser, and Medwick, with Drysdale and Koufax as his pitchers.

[DODGER DEB]

Originally Posted by strummer

Accoring to a review of Duke Snider's (with Phil Pepe) new book, "Few and Chosen", his all-time team would have Reese, Robinson, Hodges, Campanella, with Vaughn at third, and leaving himself out, an outfield of Furillo, Reiser, and Medwick, with Drysdale and Koufax as his pitchers.

Very interesting, strummer!

Was Arky Vaughn really better than Coxy?

As for the outfield, I would tend to agree with him about Reiser, had he not gotten hurt, which deprived him of being one of the best baseball has ever seen.

Is there any mention of relief pitchers?

c.

[Marshall]

1B Hodges
2B Robinson
SS Reese
3B Cox
LF Wheat
CF Snider
RF Furillo
C Campanella

SP Vance
SP Newcombe
SP Erskine
SP Pfeffer
SP Roe

RP Casey
RP Labine

[musial6]

Originally Posted by DODGER DEB

Very interesting, strummer!

Was Arky Vaughn really better than Coxy?

As for the outfield, I would tend to agree with him about Reiser, had he not gotten hurt, which deprived him of being one of the best baseball has ever seen.

Is there any mention of relief pitchers?

c.

Arky was primarily a shortstop (85% of his games in the majors). Further, he joined the Dodgers late in his career. When you think of Arky, think Pittsburgh. He was a great hitter, though.