Top 5 - Baseball Players from Kansas

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

1. Walter Johnson - perhaps the greatest pitcher in baseball history
2. Joe Tinker - sorry but in my mind one of the least deserving members of the Hall of Fame
3. Johnny Damon - his two All-Star appearances don't give the story to his true value
4. Tony Clark - at 241 and counting - the most HR in MLB history by a Kansas born player
5. (tie) Mike "F'n" Torrez (tie) Bill Russell

Kansas has perhaps the biggest drop-off from their top player to the next best player from the state. Joe Tinker gets the nod for the second slot purely on his being in the Hall of Fame. It pained me to put Mike "the original embedded Yankee" Torrez on this list.