Like baseball? Can you name these baseball legends from a photo?

[panader0]

I got the first 21 in a row correct and then quit because my f'n computer is too slow.
https://heywise.com/quiz/can-you-name-these-baseball-legends/21/?hwl=native

[rurallib]

1. OK - got 30 of 30

Used to be a huge baseball fan, but the easy homers, long games and incessant commercials have turned me off

[panader0]

2. But but--the Giants lead the majors!

I have slowed my fandom, I get few games on TV, but this is my home team's best start in a while.

[First Speaker]

4. Above all, for me, the endless pitching changes...

...I mean, how seriously can you take a sport that has 13-man pitching staffs, and only two or three real baseball players available on the bench? Now we're starting to see "openers"--some jerk going out there just for the first inning. I dunno--give me Koufax vs Marichal, or Gibson vs Seaver. You know--guys who pitched nine innings...

[rurallib]

5. Know what you mean.

It all adds dead time. What was once a game that took maybe 2 hours now takes 4 with a lot more strikeouts and much less "action."

[panader0]

8. If a starter is doing well, the manager will keep him in until he gets to 90 or 100 pitches.

That can be pretty rough on a guy's arm. That's why there are usually five starters in the rotation,
to give the arms a rest. Many a young pitcher has had a short career because of arm troubles.
Catchers too need a break, tough on the knees.
Pitchers are "real" baseball players, they just work hard on every batter--5,6 8 pitches per batter.
Only one fielder out of eight play on each out. Much less work.

[Sanity Claws]

3. 25 out of 30

I think all the ones I got wrong were very early baseball or current players.

[rurallib]

6. Quick story about meeting Rod Carew (since he was one of the answers)

We went up tp watch the Twins on a July 4th (1977 I think) at the old Met Stadium. there had been a soccer game there the night before and the field was in horrible shape.

We always go way early to watch BP and we always buy box seats since we only see a few games a year.

We were sitting in row 2 behind the first base dugout. Carew took BP. He was hitting over .400 at the time. The crowd was very sparse with a paid attendance of about 2000 that night.

So Carew took BP and went into the dugout. A sew seconds later he came out of the dugout and climbed over it. Then he ducked through a seam in the netting and came over and introduced himself. I was in awe. My wife had no idea who he was.

We slid over so he could sit down and we chatted for about ten minutes. Someone signaled from the dugout and he said that he had to go play. We really enjoyed meeting him.

That was something about baseball back in the day - much more informal and closer to the fans.

[hay rick]

7. One and done

The first legend was Stan Musial, my boyhood hero. I started following baseball, the Cardinals, and Stan the Man after the day he hit 5 homers in a double header. Clicking "Continue" served up an ad and I had no need for slow motion anticlimax.