Friday, August 04, 2006

Top 5 - Baseball Players from Virginia

Here are who I consider the top 5 players born in Virginia.

1. Eppa Rixley - Hall of Fame pitcher (but at just 266-251 - he's the Tony Perez of HoF pitchers)
2. David Wright - budding superstar
3. Billy Wagner - 4-time All-Star with 314 saves and counting
4. Willie Horton - slugging outfielder for the Tigers - 4-time All-Star
5. (tie) Al Bumbry - 1973 AL ROY (tie) Justin Verlander - potentially this year's AL ROY

I must say that there was slim picking's from Virginia. Only one Hall of Famer? That was surprising. Also, growing up we always referred to Bobby Witt as Canton Mass's Bobby Witt but it turns out he was born in Arlington, Virginia.

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