AND the New York Mets DHL Hometown Hero IS...

[stevejrogers]

Who do you bloody think it could be?


Number 41 from 1967-1977 and 1983, later a broadcaster and roving pitching instructor from 1999-2005. THE FRANCHISE! GEORGE THOMAS SEAVER!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Gary Carter was the Nationals HTH.

[stevejrogers]

I think tonight is the final broadcast.

The Bambino got it for the Yanks. A mild upset if you ask me, only because Mickey Mantle, Don Mattingly and Derek Jeter all have a large amount of their fan base still very much alive and all. I would have guessed it'd be Mickey.

After all, he WAS the first mega superstar of the TV age and probably the biggest baseball pop-culture icon of the post war era (based on his post career memorabillia craze)

I've always likened Mantle as Elvis to DiMaggio's Sinatra in that regard and almost suspect that Ruth gets treated as an "afterthought" in the mind of Yankee fans, or at least an icon that belongs more to general baseball history and lore.

Eh, my take anyway

[MFS62]

Yes. the Babe was important to the history and lore all of baseball.

But If he didn't get it for the Yank HTH, that would be like someone winning the Preidential election without winning his home state.

Later