Top Five

A feature of this site will be the Top Five list. Some of you who have played fantasy sports with me know of my infatuation with the top five list. In honor of the Cubs/Sox series this weekend I will showcase my top five Cubs and Sox players of all time. First the Cubs. Let me say this was tough. Do you allow players who retired before the turn of the century? Do you pick players who were really really good for a short period of time or do you reward longevity? I pretty much allowed everything and I think it makes a pretty good list.

1. Cap Anson-The real Mr. Cub. Played with them forever. Leads all Cubs in hits, runs, RBI, with a .329 avg and less AB's than Banks. Problems: Retired in 1897. Played in a segregated league. Played before Wrigley (where did they play?)

2. Ernie Banks- Second best career numbers. Played in the modern era but not the juiced ball era. Most well known spokesmen for the team. Problems: Played on crappy teams. Only hit .274 lifetime.

3. Sammy Sosa-Maybe has the best numbers if you look at how few AB's he had compared to the rest of em. Problems: Roids?

4. Hack Wilson- Forget Sammy this guy was a stud. Had less than a third of Sosa's AB's but more than half as many RBI's. Same with hits. Had almost as many runs as Sosa again with less than a third of the AB's. He hit about 370 RBI's in the 1929 and 1930 seasons. That wasn't that long ago but still they were playing in a segregated league.

5.Mordecai Brown- It was very hard to leave Billy Williams off the list but this guy was great and I had to put a pitcher up there. He was 188-86 with a 1.80 ERA. Pretty nice. Yes he did pitch a long time ago but at least it was in the 1900's. I mean I coulda went with Larry Corcoran who threw 250 complete games in a five season span. Man whoever had him on their fantasy team in 1880 was making bank!

Stay tuned for the Sox list.