Wednesday, August 04, 1999Bench leads catchers in All-Century voting
Reds great Johnny Bench is the leading vote-getter at catcher on the MasterCard All-Century Baseball team, with approximately 200,000 ballots counted.
Fans can vote for the best baseball players of the century at www.majorleaguebaseball.com.
Pete Rose would also be on the team if voting ended today. He holds the No.9 and final position for outfielders. Rose has 60,658 votes, more than 4,000 behind Seattle's Ken Griffey Jr., and 3,500 in front of St. Louis' Stan Musial.
Joe Morgan is No.3 at second base, 3,000 behind Rogers Hornsby.
Tom Seaver is 11th among pitchers.
Leading vote-getters at each position are: First base, Lou Gehrig; second base, Jackie Robinson; shortstop, Cal Ripken Jr.; third base, Mike Schmidt; outfield, Hank Aaron; pitcher, Nolan Ryan.
Gehrig leads all players with 121,526 votes.
Voting continues through Sept. 14.
Voting through Aug. 1:
Catchers: 1. Johnny Bench 101,066. 2. Yogi Berra 69,215. 3. Carlton Fisk 32,110. 4. Josh Gibson 23,927. 5. Roy Campanella 23,735. 6. Mickey Cochrane 7,546. 7. Bill Dickey 7,293. 8. Gabby Hartnett 2,209.
First Basemen: 1. Lou Gehrig 121,526. 2. Mark McGwire 48,507. 3. Jimmie Foxx 36,061. 4. Harmon Killebrew 18,926. 5. Eddie Murray 15,411. 6. Hank Greenberg 11,938. 7. Willie McCovey 10,352. 8. George Sisler 2,707. 9. Buck Leonard 1,928. 10. Bill Terry 1,164.
Second Basemen: 1. Jackie Robinson 78,834. 2. Rogers Hornsby 64,274. 3. Joe Morgan 60,428. 4. Rod Carew 41,050. 5. Nap Lajoie 8,908. 6. Eddie Collins 5,543. 7. Charlie Gehringer 4,557. 8. Frankie Frisch 2,387.
Shortstops: 1. Cal Ripken Jr. 68,097. 2. Ernie Banks 61,274. 3. Ozzie Smith 58,731. 4. Honus Wagner 53,814. 5. Robin Yount 13,118. 6. Luis Aparicio 7,566. 7. Luke Appling 2,474. 8. Joe Cronin 2,331.
Third Basemen: Mike Schmidt 86,510. 2. Brooks Robinson 76,951. 3. George Brett 63,968. 4. Eddie Mathews 17,149. 5. Paul Molitor 14,811. 6. Pie Traynor 9,232.
Outfielders: 1. Hank Aaron 116,481. 2. Babe Ruth 116,103. 3. Ted Williams 114,980. 4. Willie Mays 112,762. 5. Joe DiMaggio 106,208. 6. Mickey Mantle 98,920. 7. Ty Cobb 78,094. 8. Ken Griffey Jr. 64,914. 9. Pete Rose 60,658. 10. Stan Musial 57,141. 11. Roberto Clemente 55,537. 12. Joe Jackson 33,454. 13. Reggie Jackson 28,276. 14. Tony Gwynn 22,837. 15. Carl Yastrzemski 21,790. 16. Frank Robinson 21,260. 17. Ricky Henderson 16,677.
18. Barry Bonds 16,481. 19. Lou Brock 12,122. 20. Tris Speaker 8,261. 21. Willie Stargell 6,597. 22. Al Kaline 6,471. 23. Duke Snider 6,039. 24. Cool Papa Bell 5,562. 25. Mel Ott 4,918. 26. Ralph Kiner 3,104. 27. Billy Williams 2,204. 28. Al Simmons 1,358. 29. Paul Waner 1,257. 30. Oscar Charleston 1,180. 31. Wee Willie Keeler 866. 32. Joe Medwick 842. 33. Harry Heilmann 806. 34. Goose Goslin 780.
Pitchers: 1. Nolan Ryan 98,421. 2. Sandy Koufax 97,887. 3. Cy Young 87,040. 4. Bob Gibson 58,674. 5. Walter Johnson 48,827. 6. Roger Clemens 47,367. 7. Greg Maddux 41,772. 8. Satchel Paige 39,691. 9. Steve Carlton 38,558. 10. Warren Spahn 34,518. 11. Tom Seaver 32,531. 12. Christy Mathewson 25,743. 13. Bob Feller 25,565.
14. Whitey Ford 25,135. 15. Jim Palmer 14,900. 16. Grover Cleveland Alexander 18,847. 17. Dennis Eckersley 14,278. 18. Lefty Grove 13,860. 19. Dizzy Dean 12,329. 20. Rollie Fingers 10,412. 21. Juan Marichal 9,724. 22. Carl Hubbell 5,396. 23. Robin Roberts 3,060. 24. Mordecai Brown 3,006. 25. Ed Walsh 1,123. 26. Eddie Plank 1,058.
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