Position by position, who are your favorite baseball players of all time?

Good question... this would be my all time team (it wouldn't be ANYONE'S all time team) but my favorite players at each position would probably be these guys that I grew up watching:

1B - Donn Clendenon - the slugging hero of the '69 Series. He passed away in 2005 at age 70

2B - Joe Morgan, but after him, I liked Felix Millan of the Mets... I felt bad for Millan, a great glove man, because of his error in the 1973 World Series (ground ball went through right between the wickets)

3B - George Brett (I liked him growing up because he was a bit of a Yankee killer, whereas I didn't like Mike Schmidt as much because he was a bit of a Met-killer. My next favorite 3rd baseman would be Brooks Robinson

SS - Bud Harrelson - I'm a Mets fan

LF - Willie Stargell - he was scary.He passed away in 2001 at age 61. He was cool, because not only was he a great player on the field, he might have been the "best human being" in baseball. Just a great man, and a leader on and off the field.

CF - Willie Mays - I too saw him mostly at the end of his career (from '68 or so). But we loved the guy anyway, and when he came to the Mets, we didn't care how old he was.

RF - Roberto Clemente - a friend of mine who was a Pittsburgh fan got me to pay extra attention to Clemente during Mets-Pirates games... I began to get a real appreciation of him around 1970 or so... we didn't pay a whole lot of attention to career milestones until they were almost there... I didn't actually know how close Clemente was to 3,000 hits until I saw a little blurb in the New York Post titled "Roberto: 14 to go". We looked at the schedule and wondered if he might get his 3,000th hit against the Mets, and he sure enough did. Tom Seaver stopped him on a Friday night game (perhaps aided by a controversial hit/error decision on a grounder hit to Mets 2B Ken Boswell), but he finally got it during a Saturday game off of eventual Rookie of the Year Jon Matlack.

SP - Tom Seaver - easily the greatest non-steroid pitcher I've ever seen... he was better than Maddux imo, but perhaps not quite as good as Clemens on steroids.

RP - Tug McGraw - "You Gotta Believe".

Starting Pitcher: Tim Lincecum

Relief Pitcher: Jeremy Affeldt

1B: J.T. Snow

2B: Freddy Sanchez

3B: Pablo Sandoval

SS: Omar Vizquel

LF: Barry Bonds

CF: Willie Mays

RF: Nate Schierholtz

C: Buster Posey

C Johnny Bench

1B Mark Grace

2B Rhyne Sandberg

3B Wade Boggs

SS Dave Concepcion

OF Tony Gwynn

OF Kirby Puckett

OF Pete Rose

SP Tom Seaver

RP Lee Smith

C- Jorge Posada

1B- Albert Pujols

2B- Brian Roberts

SS- Jose Reyes

3B- Chipper Jones

LF- Alfosno Soriano

CF- Bernie Williams

RF- Roberto Clemente

SP- Brad Bergensen

RP-Trevor Hoffman

SP- Bob Gibson - Would love to see him pitch again

DH- David Ortiz - For the greatest comeback of all time 2004 alcs

3B- Brooks Robinson Best Defensive 3B ever

SS- Rico Petrocelli - Just loved the guy

2B- Dustin Pedroia- Hope for the vertically challenged

1B- Willie McCovey - Just Awesome

LF- Yaz - Last triple crown winner and in the season I started watching baseball

CF Willie Mays - saw him in the twilight of his career he was still great

RF- Tony C Might have challenged Williams as career Sox HR leader had it not been for injury

C- Jason Varitek - have watched him catch 3 no no's (he's caught four) and led Redsox to two WS championships, takes someone very special to do that.

C: Johnny Bench

1B: Albert Pujols

2B: Craig Biggio

SS: Pee Wee Reese

3B: Mike Schmidt

LF: Andre Dawson (vive Les Expos!)

CF: Ken Griffey Jr.

RF: Jay Buhner

SP: Walter Johnson

RP: Rollie Fingers

1b Frank Thomas

2b Julio Cruz

ss Ozzie Guillen

3b Joe Crede

lf Ron Kittle

cf Chet Lemon

rf Jermaine Dye

c Carlton Fisk

rp Bobby Thigpen

sp Jack McDowell

SP-Pedro Martinez, Louis Tiant, Josh Beckett, Bill Lee, Tim Wakefield

RP-Lee Smith, Bob Stanley, Tom Gordon, Jeff Reardon

C-Carlton Fisk

1b--Carl Yastremski

2b--Jerry Remy

ss--Rick Burlson

3b--Youk (just can't get myself to go with Boggs)

lf--Ted Williams

cf-Fred Lynn (would be Johnny D if he hadn't committed the unforgivable act of leaving us for the Yankees)

rf-Dwight Evans

DH-Jim Rice

Bench: Jason Varitek-C, David Ortiz 1b, DH, PH, Marty Barret--2b, Dustin Pedroia 2b, ss, John Valentin-infield, Jacoby Ellsbury of, Rick Miller of

For me: commencing Pitcher: Rick Reed Catcher: Todd Hundley 1st Base: John Olerud 2d Base: Edgardo Alfonzo short end: Rey Ordonez third base: Howard Johnson Left container: Rickey Henderson center container: Endy Chavez good container: Tony Gwynn Reliever: John Franco supervisor: Bobby Valentine

C - Darren Daulton

1B - Pete Rose

2B - Chase Utley

SS - Larry Bowa

3B - Michael Jack Schmidt

OF - Andy Van Slyke

OF - Dale Murphy

OF - Jim Eisenreich

P - Steve Carlton

RP - Tug McGraw