I follow yours pretty closely, but I swapped Gibson for Davis and Brock for Edmonds.

Gibson over Davis other wise we think alike,…scary eh?

I filled in mine a couple hours ago but I had the same 8 position players and Bob Gibson as my pitcher, while the average on Davis was hard to pass up I had to remember that the number of ABs for a pitcher is so small that only a couple hits can change alot and the home run advantage was big for Gibson.

I’m with you on all but Curt Davis and Jim Edmonds, who I was really struggling with, but went with Chick Hafey (1929 .338 29 125 101 7) instead, based off of total runs produced, and the higher average. As for Davis, I thought it was a toss up between him and Mike Oneil, but thought the runs scored out weighed the average. One question, has anybody put up #’s like Hornsby did at second base. I’ve always been amazed at the #’s he put up.

hard to argue with Gibson’s hitting, but I would have liked to see Woody or Wainwright in the mix.

I grew up a Yankee’s fan in PA, but I would take my Cards team over the Yank’s team in a beat. More balance throughout the line-up.

“Inspired by the once-a-century date,”

Ummmm, isn’t EVERY date a once-a-century thing?

Nope. Every date is a once thing. Shaving off the first two digits of the year makes it a once-in-a-century thing.

I quibble with some of the years selected for the various players. For example, I like Brock’s 1967 (20HR/50 SB) and Templeton’s 1979 (100 hits from both sides of the plate/19 3b).

How about Willie McGee’s 1985 MVP season: .353 average, 216 hits, 56 stolen bases, 18 triples, 82 RBI’s as a #2 hitter.

My choices were mostly the same as yours. I picked 2004 Rolen over 1971 Torre, only because Rolen had more home runs and because I thought it would be cool to include all three members of the 2004 “MV3″ (even if it is 2006 Pujols rather than 2004 Pujols).

I also picked Gibson as the pitcher, partly because of his five home runs, and partly because it is just hard to omit Gibson from an all-time Cardinals team, even if the selections are supposed to be based on hitting ability only.

The two choices that I thought were the easiest and most obvious were Rogers Hornsby and Stan Musial. They both pretty much blow away all of the competition at their positions, at least in my opinion.

I also agree with another commenter who wonders why Willie McGee’s 1985 season was omitted. I don’t know that I would have voted for him, but I think he belongs on the list.