Your childhood "surefire HOFers"

[hockeyfights]

Dale Murphy, Bret Saberhagen, Phil Neikro, Bruce Sutter, Vince Coleman, Pedro Guerrero, Ted Simmons, Wally Joyner, Eric Davis

 

[cards01fan]

Jack Clark, only because when he came to stl I was 11 and hadn't seen a hr hitter before ! Lol after he hit the hrs in the nlcs against the dodgers I just knew he was great. Lol

 

[Gwynn545]

All the pitchers that I loved all turned out HOFers (Ryan, Carlton, Seaver and Palmer), although I loved to be Dan Quisenberry or Kent Tekulve on the wiffle ball field.
The batters were Reggie, Carew, Fred Lynn, Dave Parker, Thurman Munson and King Kong Kingman.
My local team had a guy named Bruce Bochte, but I never thought he was a superstar.

 

[markakis8]

I was always fascinated by premium hitting and premium hitting in the late 80's and early 90's when I was growing up with baseball was probably mediocre hitting today...

So I always thought these guys were bound for the HOF (as a kid mind you):

Howard Johnson
Darryl Strawberry
Ruben Sierra
Eric Davis
Kirk Gibson
Bobby Bonilla
Chris Sabo

and definitely

Matt Williams, Albert Belle, Jose Canseco, and Cecil Fielder.

 

[allstars]

Josh Johnson

 

[Bonds73]

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).

Pablo Sanchez for sure, maybe Pete Wheeler as well.

 

[petMonster]

The obvious were Frank Thomas, Griffey, Roberto Alomar, and Bagwell. The now not so obvious were Albert Belle, Juan Gonzalez, Greg Vaughn, Travis Fryman, David Justice, John Olerud, Matt Williams, Jim Abbott.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Sports Cards by Freedom Card Board.com

 

[cbrandtw]

He's been mentioned a few times already but I want the voters to know (if they are reading) Dale Murphy still deserves.

 

[JzWand]

eric davis

 

[joey12508]

thurman munson, dale murphy.

 

[DeliciousBacon]

Jim Rice

I remember the sad way Rice's career ended; the Sox ownership pretty much took him out back and shot him. Didn't they try and say he was having trouble seeing balls in the lights, or something ridiculous like that?

Seems like a good time to show off my new Rice pick-up:

Love these buybacks!

 

[PujolsCollector]

I still think Jim Edmonds has a real shot at the HOF. No he did not hit 500 hrs, or a .300 carrer average, but he was a great defensive outfielder, and had a solid carrer.

 

[muskiesfan]

Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Dave Concepcion, Eric Davis, Dave Parker, Barry Larkin, Chris Sabo, Paul O'Neill, and there are probably some other Reds I thought would be locks.

Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, Andre Dawson, Ryne Sandberg, Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs, Alan Trammell, Lou Whitaker, Harold Baines, I could probably list more, but stop there.

I thought a TON of 80's players were HOF locks.

 

[gradedeflator]

I was a big fan of Cory Snyder growing up...remember the infamous SI cover with him and Joe Carter hyping the Indians preseason.

Also thought Joyner and Carlos Baerga had HOF peak seasons...

 

[Tomlinson21RB]

Nomar

 

[BrewerSuperCollector]

Don Mattingly
Dale Murphy
Steve Garvey
Bill Madlock..anyone who wins 4 batting titles now would be thought of as a lock
Al Oliver
Wil Cark

...obviously Pete Rose.

I knew the Gooden, Straw, Canseco, ED were having great years, but it wasn't long enogh when I was a kid.

 

[sheetskout]

Sadly, no one. Brewers fans knew that Molitor and Yount were first ballot HOFers but no one besides that. Higuera was on the right track but then the rotator-cuff popped.

 

[Austin]

Steve Garvey
Bill Madlock..anyone who wins 4 batting titles now would be thought of as a lock

Garvey's a good one. He was a massive star and played for those great '70s Dodgers teams.
10-time All-Star
4 Gold Gloves
NL MVP in 1974
2-time All-Star Game MVP
2-time NLCS MVP
And he holds the National League record for consecutive games played (1,207). The NL version of Cal Ripken.
Too bad he fell short of 3,000 hits because he seemed like a shoo-in for the Hall.

Madlock was such an enigma.
He won 4 batting titles, but amazingly, never had more than 182 hits in a season.
One of his batting titles was during the 1981 strike sesson, in which he had only 279 at bats.
He finished his career with only 2008 hits and is more known for his temper than for his hitting.

 

[cubfanbudman]

Mark Grace
Mattingly
Strawberry
Gooden
Eric Davis
Ellis Burks
Kevin Mitchell

 

[nappyd]

bo jackson (ok maybe not in baseball...)
deion sanders (again, maybe not in baseball...)
greg jefferies, especially coupled with how hard it was to get his Score rookie card
mark grace
shawon dunston
david justice
reuben sierra (had a top 5 batting stance)
eric davis (top 10 batting stance, plus the flip up shades and would slap his glove on his leg before catching fly balls).

i mean leaving out the guys who pretty much are HOF caliber like maddux, smoltz, etc.