Top 5 - Baseball Players from New York

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

1. Lou Gehrig - the Iron Horse
2. Warren Spahn - 13-time 20-game winner and 14-time All-Star
3. Alex Rodriguez - pains me to do this but its true
4. Eddie Collins - Hall of Fame 2nd baseman (Bill James ranks him as the 2nd best 2nd baseman of all-time)
5. Carl Yastrzemski - Captain Carl - 6th All-Time in hits and the last man to win the Triple Crown (people also forget his 7 Gold Glove Awards)

Just missing the cut were Wee Willie Keeler, Hank Greenberg, Frankie Frisch, Jim Palmer, Whitey Ford, Johnny Evers, Craig Biggio and King Kelly. Everyone who missed the cut is a Hall of Famer (except Biggio but I'm sure he'll be in too). There were even some Hall of Famers who did not make the Honorable Mention. Suffice it to say that there were a lot of great baseball players from New York.