Your all-time favorite baseball team of your lifetime

How do you take Mattingly, Jeter, Nettles, Rickey, Guidry, Rivera and not take Munson and Gossage.

 

Munson died before I really knew about him. I liked Goose as well, but he left the Yankees when I was kinda young and still preferred hitters over pitchers.

 

And Gossage was/is an asshole.

 

Favorite team from any one season -- 78 Yankees

All time

C Munson
1B Mattingly
2B Randolph
SS Jeter
3B Nettles
OF Reggie
OF O'Neil
OF Bernie
DH Baylor
SP Guidry
SP Pettitte
SP Duque
SP Key
RP Gossage
RP Rivera

Non-Yankees
C Benito Santiago
1B Jim Thome
2B Tom Herr
SS Mike Bordick
3B Vinny Castilla
OF Larry Walker
OF Pete Incaviglia
OF Dave Parker
SP Mike Scott
SP Ben McDonald
SP Frank Viola
SP Dave Stewart
RP Bobby Jenks
RP Billy Wagner

 

Huge Braves fan, so it will be slanted, but in my lifetime this would be my all-time favorites team:

C - Javy Lopez
1B - Thome
2B - Craig Biggio
SS - Nomar
3B - Chipper
OF - Griffey Jr.
OF - Gwynn
OF - Andruw Jones
SP: Maddux
SP: Smoltz
SP: Pedro
SP: Glavine
SP: Randy Johnson
CL: Hoffman
UTIL - David Justice (All-time Fav)

HM: Sandberg, Puckett, Ripken, Ozzie

 

Some of my favorite times at Yankee Stadium were the 92 and 93 seasons when they were bad. About 6-8 of us went to a good amount of games and sat out in the bleachers. We used to sit near Ali, the older guy with the cowbell. The Daily News wrote a couple grafs in the sports section when he died.

 

Yes Freddy used to bang the pan and give him a high 5 if we saw him outside stadium before the game.
Ali was great. Think his son, or maybe nephew took over for him after he died for a few seasons. Now the bleachers at the new stadium
are nowhere near as good IMHO.

 

Sat in those seats at the Pinstripe Bowl. Can't believe they built in an obstructed view by placing a restaurant in dead center.

 

I've kind of put a lot of thought into this as a kid who grew up without a local baseball team so had a favorite from afar and then in his late teens finally got a home team and those teams are the Reds and Rockies. The latter really haven't had a lot to write home about other than the 2007 miracle run, which was very fun but ultimately nothing overall special teamwise in my mind. So to me it's the 1990 Reds. Led the division wire-to-wire and upset its way to the World Series title including sweeping the very favored A's.