Since today's 09/09/09, who is the greatest 9 to play for your team?

St, Louis Cardinals- HOFer Enos Slaughter

sentimental Cardinal Roger Maris

Number 9? Ted Williams

Best 9 Players? (Not in order)

Ted Williams

Carl Yastrzemski

Bobby Doerr

Babe Ruth

Carlton Fisk

Pedro Martinez

Cy Young

Tris Speaker

Manny Ramirez

Rockies

SP- Pedro Astachio

Catcher- Joe Girardi

1B- Todd Helton (sorry big cat andres gallaraga)

2B Clint Barmes

SS Troy Tulowitzki

3B Vinny Castilla

LF Matt Holliday

CF Juan Pierre

RF Larry Walker

The Seattle Mariners

C- Dan Wilson

1B-Either Tino Martinez or John Olerud

2B-Bret Boone

SS-Alex Rodriguez

3B-Adrian Beltre

LF-Raul Ibanez

RF-Ichiro Suzuki (Buhener 2nd)

CF-Ken Griffey Jr.

DH-Edgar Martinez

SP-Randy Johnson

RP-Kaz Sasaki

C: Carlton Fisk

1B: Jimmie Foxx

2B: Dustin Pedroia

3B: Wade Boggs

SS: Nomar Garciaparra

OF: Ted Williams

OF: Carl Yastrzemski

OF: Manny Ramirez

inquis - Cardinal 3rd Baseman, Joe Torre (also played for other teams but won 1971 NL MVP with Cards) and Ken Boyer (7x all star with Cardinals AND 1964 NL MVP)

As for the Mets:

Tom Seaver

Mike Piazza and Gary Carter

Keith Hernandez

Edgardo Alfonso (or Felix Millan lol)

Bud Harrelson

David Wright (and HoJo was a 30/30 guy)

Cleon Jones (or Mookie)

Carlos Beltran

Darryl Strawberry

I'm leaving a lot of my favorite guys off, but what the heck

Ivan Rodriguez, Michael Young, Ruben Sierra, Nolan Ryan, Juan Gonzalez, Charlie Hough, Jim Sundberg, Alex Rodriguez, Buddy Bell, Rusty Greer.

Baltimore Orioles

P - Jim Palmer

C - Gus Triandos (hopefully this answer becomes Matt Wieters soon)

1B - Eddie Murray (Sorry, Boog Powell)

2B - Davey Johnson

SS - Cal Ripken, Jr.

3B - Brooks Robinson

RF - Frank Robinson

CF - Paul Blair (soon to be Adam Jones)

LF - Hmmm. I guess Don Buford because no one else immediately comes to mind.

If you mean the greatest who WORE #9, then it would be Buford.

1b Pujols

2b Hornsby

3b Shannon lol

ss Ozzie

of Musial

of Brock

of Edmonds

c Simmons

P Gibson

Thats who I'd go with. There have been some great players that aren't on the list due to service time(Mize) or position(Red) to name a couple. Only real question mark is third base. Can't recall just a stud 3 sacker the Birds have had.

number 9? Minnie Minoso. His number 9 is retired.

top 9 players? (in specific order, other than my mind working...)

Frank Thomas

Aparicio

Appling

Joe Jackson

Mark Buehrle

Fisk

Baines

Nellie Fox

Ted Lyons

(if you are counting careers of players even if their significant time was not on the White Sox, i would certainly through Griffey and Thome in there too, taking out Baines and Lyons)