Top 5 - Baseball Players from Arkansas

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

1. Brooks Robinson - perhaps the best defensive 3rd baseman in the history of baseball - 18 All-Star games and 16 Gold Gloves
2. Lou Brock - people remember that he retired as the all-time leader in steals (since passed by Rickey Henderson) but people forget that Brock also had more than 3,000 hits (3,023)
3. Arky Vaughn - Hall of Fame shortstop - 9-time All-Star who retired with a career .318 batting average. Real first name was Joe.
4. Dizzy Dean - Hall of Fame pitcher whose career was cut short by injury. I would argue that if Dean is in the HoF then Smokey Joe Wood should be in too.
5. George Kell - Hall of Fame 3rd baseman - 10-time all star

You can flip the top 2 spots and I would not argue. Just missing the cut was Travis Jackson - a Hall of Fame shortstop although I could see nothing special about him and so left him off. Torii Hunter is also from Arkansas.