Your childhood "surefire HOFers"

[Ty Hope]

Who were some guys that you, as a child, saw as absolute can't miss HOFers?

Some of mine from back in the day:

- Will Clark
- Matt Williams
- Greg Jefferies
- Kevin Mitchell

 

[James52411]

Don Mattingly probably tops the list for me.

 

[Brewer Andy]

Don Mattingly probably tops the list for me.

Definitely at the top. Followed by Canseco, McGwire, and Bo Jackson

 

[George_Calfas]

Ray Lankford

 

[Ty Hope]

Good names!

 

[jbhofmann]

Eric Davis
Daryl Strawberry
Bo Jackson
Jose Rijo

 

[AmishDave]

Carlos Perez, Cliff Floyd, Kevin Mitchell

 

[hive17]

Mattingly for sure, as well as Sheffield, Vince Coleman, Joe Carter and Fred McGriff

 

[hofmichael]

I swore as a six year old that Gooden would be in Cooperstown.

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[jbhofmann]

This dude was off the chain....

 

[James52411]

Dwight Gooden has to be added to the list. Imagine if Strasburg had pitched in New York for a dominant team and put up 24 wins and a sub-2 ERA in his second year after winning ROY.

 

[Hallsgator]

Bryce Harper

Mike Trout

 

[TBTwinsFan]

Me

or anyone on the 2002 Minnesota Twins, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Jeff Bagwell, Jose Canseco, Richie Sexson, Bobby Higginson, and the rest of the Backyard Baseball 2001 crew (a game in which I still enjoy from time to time).

 

[AmishDave]

David Cone as well.

 

[jbmm161]

Here are mine:
Jose Cancesco
Mark McGwire
Ken Griffey Jr
Frank Thomas

 

[James52411]

How about Pete Rose? Talk about a true surefire HOFer. Dale Murphy also seemed sure-fire during the mid 1980s.

 

[klute14]

Jim Rice

 

[Ty Hope]

Dale Murphy is a good one.

Another for me was Ray Knight.

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

Dwight Evans
Fernando Valenzuela

 

[Austin]

Most of the great players in the 80s when I was young:

Mattingly
Gooden
Strawberry
Saberhagen
Hershiser
E. Davis
Raines
Coleman
Murphy
Morris
Valenzuela
Barfield
Bell
Sierra
Canseco
Joyner
Trammell
Whitaker