Went back and looked and wow! I think Rick Manning was an OF-3 in APBA, but I wouldn’t have thought of him. Ray Fosse would never have occurred to me; the Pete Rose incident is all I knew, nothing about his glove.
But if I’d thought of Graig Nettles I absolutely would have picked him and been wrong. Only started winning Gold Gloves at the Yankees. Narrow escape today.
Encarnacion, Rolen, Fernández, Buddy Bell, Sabo, and Johnny Bench we’re all the main starting 3B for the Reds over a full season.
Frank Robinson started 8 games at 3B for the Reds in 1958. Curt Flood got his first cup of coffee with the Reds before a very bad trade. He played 4 innings at third for the Reds. Only Vince Coleman never played 3B in his (brief) time as a Red.
Pete Rose & Tommy Helms were also RoY/All Stars and Reds starting 3B.
@MediaLawProf@Baseball He’s from Tallahassee, where I live, and a Reds prospect, so I’m oddly aware of him. Hal Morris and Sean Casey are also .300 career guys. Sadly Votto isn’t anymore.
@MediaLawProf@Baseball Live and learn. I liked your Jeff Burroughs pick in the SE corner. I briefly considered Willie Hernandez, but I like getting black and white photos and had to use the somewhat obscure Red.
Always like using Fernando. Templeton all the way up at 9% was a surprise. Wonder what Ozzie’s % was. How many of us thought we were oh-so-clever doing the other side of the trade?
So yeah, had to try it. I was a football obsessed little kid in the 1970s and still collect OLD football cards. It show in my selections. As a U of Miami family, George Mira really did seem obvious to me. God I’m old.
Also, apparently some other site already grabbed the obvious name “immaculate gridiron” — that’s disappointing.
Just noticed the box for Astros/Nationals today had a correct rate of only 35%! That’s the lowest I’ve ever noticed.
The most frequent correct answer was Will Harris at 18%
I’d bet a large number of people conflated the careers of Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer! They both starred with the Tigers and are now Mets. In between, Verlander was an Astro and Scherzer was a National.
More than ever I want to know the most frequently wrong answer!
@ArthurCopeland4 I have to go back to Expos for those, so you can use Rusty Staub (or John Bateman, my choice after currently trying to collect a 1972 Topps set)