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All four of Minnesota's (post-integration*) Hall of Famers (Dave Winfield, Paul Molitor, Jack Morris, Joe Mauer) were born in St. Paul within ten miles of each other, and it would take 15 minutes to drive from Winfield's high school (St. Paul Central) to Molitor and Mauer's high school (Cretin-Derham Hall) to Morris's high school (Highland Park). Must be something in the water in St. Paul. *This exercise requires me to exclude Charles Bender, a Dead Ball era pitcher who was born somewhere in the Brainerd area and grew up on the White Earth Reservation. His story is fascinating in its own right, as a Native American baseball player who grew up on the still relatively new reservation, learned baseball at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (the same boarding school that made Jim Thorpe a national name), and became a top pitcher on Connie Mack's Philidelphia Athletics, all at a time when "kill the Indian, save the man" was all but official policy and the Sioux Wars were still very much in living memory.
1:08:30 David Wright is easily the best position player from Virginia, just so happens to be a what if story similar to others on this list. If video included pitchers however, it would be Justin Verlander and it wouldn't be very close, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone passes David Wright in the next 30 years.
I know you weren’t including pitchers for this list, but it feels like a shame to say Chase Headley is the best player from Colorado because of Roy Halladay’s existence. RIP the only man on Earth who learned the Mariano cutter
So funny thing about Molitor, Im pretty sure most Minnesotan’s pick MAUER as “our best baseball player”. He was a MN highschool sports legend in 3 sports, drafted first overall by his local team, played his entire career for them, and was a first ballot HoFer. Like yes, Molitor is the best player born in MN, but Mauer is “The Best Minnesotan Baseball Player”
Hailing from N. GA myself, it was always a treat to visit the local Walgreens or CVS locations to grab some sweet "I Love Cumming" glasses and tshirts. Always a great stocking stuffer.
I have brothers who were born in Maine that have lived their entire lives in New Hampshire. I’d call them New Hampshirites, and I’d also call Carlton Fisk that as well.
I kinda wish you did American territories too. It would’ve been cool seeing the best players from American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Well I got curious so I looked it up myself: American Samoa: The only baseball player that’s come out of American Samoa is 1st baseman Tony Solaita. He was actually a pretty productive hitter for the mid 70’s Royals and Angels teams putting up 8 fWAR over his career. Puerto Rico: The incomparable Roberto Clemente. The best player from Puerto Rico and it’s not even really close with his 94.9 fWAR nearly 25 more than the next. Exactly 3,000 hits, elite defender, and an incredible human. Nothing much else to be said. Guam: Guam has only produced 2 baseball players, both of whom debuted in the 21st century. Now 3rd baseman John Hattig wins by technicality as he only played 13 games for a floundering mid 2000’s Blue Jays team. He beats out current Mets reliever Sean Reid-Foley who, even in spite of 7 years of major league activity loses out due to his career -0.1 career fWAR compared to Hattig’s 0.3 career fWAR. U.S. Virgin Islands: Home to 19 former MLB players, the best of which being Yankees 2nd baseman Horace Clark. Best known for representing how little people understood about lead off hitters as he was the consummate lead-off hitter for those late 1960’s and early 1970’s Yankees teams, even leading the league in AB’s in 1969 and 1970 despite having a .286 obp in 1970. His career 15.6 fWAR narrowly beating out 2nd place Al McBean’s career 15 fWAR
@@d2s260 I love how Puerto Rico is so stacked with talent but has such an obvious GOAT. I know a few of the actual states are also like that, but still
@@jonskillings1258 Yeah, I can't really pinpoint who the GOAT is for Cuba, DR, or Curaçao. Aruba's is definitely Xander Boegarts though, but they're pretty middling compared to just Curaçao alone.
As a New Mexican we’ll probably be able to claim Alex Bregman as the best player to come out of New Mexico. And he actually grew up here. If he keeps on pace he’ll probably pass Kiner in career WAR in two more years.
Another baseball connection regarding Tucson, during the Gabby Giffords shooting, the granddaughter of Dallas Green, who led the Phillies to their 1980 World Series win, was killed.
Great video definitely deserves more views! Could you do another but instead do countries around the world? I think that would be really interesting as well. My bet is the 1920’s through the 1950’s will be stacked
Luckily I stayed organized for once and color coded all the states in my editing timeline. So all I had to do was go through and time stamp every color change
I think for over a year now, I’ve been trying to piece together what my favorite indie/alt bands are from every state. As someone who’s from Montana, as you requested this comment in the vid, Zoola’s Silkworm is probably the artist I’d choose to represent my home state. And as for NC, which if I’m not mistaken is your home state, I go back and forth between Ben Folds Five and Sparklehorse.
This video is right in my wheelhouse since I love baseball and geography. Also, since you asked, I have been to Montana. I drove across the state in 2008 and visited Glacier National Park. It is truly a beautiful state.
Okay, as someone who has spent a fair whack of time in Hawaii, you got the important pronunciations correct, and you got pretty close with the others; well done!
Re: Collins and Millerton As small-town as it is, NYC commuter rail goes very close to Millerton. I'm on the opposite corner of the same county(Dutchess), and it's probably easier to get to Times Square from there than to me. Also the most famous person from Dutchess County in a similar small town? Franklin Roosevelt.
Imma be real with you, you say Tris Speaker is a classic Texas name, but as a non-Texan, if you were to ask me what state he was from on name alone at gunpoint, I'd guess Massachusetts as my last words
I have been to Montana. The sky truly feels bigger there. I Wish you heaped a little more praise on Maryland, all you did was shit on Baltimore lol (lovely city btw, Babe was wrong). Anyways, great video as always, and it certainly deserved a like.
Not only should we have had a 2 Bonds moment, we should have had a Bonds-Griffey career. The 1988 Pirates had the worse record, but at that time the leagues took turns with the #1 draft pick.
I am from Montana! It’s the best state, come visit sometime, you won’t regret it! Aide note, the fact that you put for Montana, it has the most unique species of what?
Arky Vaughan was born in Arkansas but moved to California. He was arguably the best shortstop of the 1940s.(Heck, they nicknamed him Arky because he was from Arkansas!) But I won't complain with Brooksie. Yogi Berra not being Missouri was a surprise. Very surprised and a little disappointed to not see Lou Gehrig for New York. Could argue for Musial for Pennsylvania, but Wagner is ok. Same thing with Rogers Hornsby for Texas. Joe Jackson would've been the best player from South Carolina. Until he ruined his career. There are some Negro Leaguers I could mention. Oscar Charleston (The Willie Mays before Willie Mays) of Indiana. Pop Lloyd can also be mentioned for Florida (He was known as the Black Wagner. Wagner himself said that it was an honor to be compared to Lloyd.) Cool Papa Bell for Missouri. Buck Leonard for North Carolina (The Black Lou Gehrig).
Mentioned Sicks’ Stadium so I’m dropping this - I wrote a story on the history of the Brewers and it’s connections to Seattle. Sicks’s stadium was a fun part of it. If you’re interested in it hmu, it could be a fun read
My grandfathers uncle was like best friends with Mel Ott. His stats are ridiculous. Polo Grounds or not. Not a lot going for louisiana but mel ott was one of them
@@soapsatellite there isnt really an accent so they'd likely take it as a comment on the drinking there. When i was a student Bozeman drank more white claw per capita than anywhere else in the country!
Fun fact: Schmidt's high school was on Philadelphia Dr. Even though I'm a Reds fan I still view Schmidt was the best 3B ever, and yes this comes from a proud Daytonian.
A video like this makes me wish MLB the Show had every MLB HoFer who ever lived also players who’s numbers were retired by a team… except Cap Anson fuck that guy.
I feel like that would be really hard to implement unless you just assume all HoFers would perform just as well in every era even though training, strategy and player base have grown exponentially over time. Otherwise, you'd have to add tons of average players from each era to contrast the HoFers against whilst still realistically nerfing them against players of later eras. But that's a tall order since the further back you go, the less data you also have, and what contemporary accounts there are also become less reliable.
I’m a big fan of Randolph, but you can’t take the honor of South Carolina’s best away from Shoeless. Cobb, Ruth and others who would know said he was the best.
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Oil up
You should do best player from every college or like the Divison 1 top 100 colleges
I remember you saying in a video that your dream is getting someone into baseball analytics. I can safely say that that dream is accomplished
All four of Minnesota's (post-integration*) Hall of Famers (Dave Winfield, Paul Molitor, Jack Morris, Joe Mauer) were born in St. Paul within ten miles of each other, and it would take 15 minutes to drive from Winfield's high school (St. Paul Central) to Molitor and Mauer's high school (Cretin-Derham Hall) to Morris's high school (Highland Park). Must be something in the water in St. Paul.
*This exercise requires me to exclude Charles Bender, a Dead Ball era pitcher who was born somewhere in the Brainerd area and grew up on the White Earth Reservation. His story is fascinating in its own right, as a Native American baseball player who grew up on the still relatively new reservation, learned baseball at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (the same boarding school that made Jim Thorpe a national name), and became a top pitcher on Connie Mack's Philidelphia Athletics, all at a time when "kill the Indian, save the man" was all but official policy and the Sioux Wars were still very much in living memory.
1:08:30 David Wright is easily the best position player from Virginia, just so happens to be a what if story similar to others on this list. If video included pitchers however, it would be Justin Verlander and it wouldn't be very close, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone passes David Wright in the next 30 years.
I know you weren’t including pitchers for this list, but it feels like a shame to say Chase Headley is the best player from Colorado because of Roy Halladay’s existence. RIP the only man on Earth who learned the Mariano cutter
He’ll get his carnations for the pitcher’s video
So funny thing about Molitor, Im pretty sure most Minnesotan’s pick MAUER as “our best baseball player”. He was a MN highschool sports legend in 3 sports, drafted first overall by his local team, played his entire career for them, and was a first ballot HoFer.
Like yes, Molitor is the best player born in MN, but Mauer is “The Best Minnesotan Baseball Player”
I would love to see one of these for the provinces/territories of Canada! Well, at least the ones that are applicable.
I might do one for every country, and if I choose to do so I’ll sneak in a small graphic breaking down each province for you.
@@nomorefielders If you do a video for every country, I demand you include BR's "At Sea" category
This video scratches so many itches for me thank you
Colorado spelt wrong. Great video
Hailing from N. GA myself, it was always a treat to visit the local Walgreens or CVS locations to grab some sweet "I Love Cumming" glasses and tshirts. Always a great stocking stuffer.
I have brothers who were born in Maine that have lived their entire lives in New Hampshire.
I’d call them New Hampshirites, and I’d also call Carlton Fisk that as well.
I remember Tucson from the family guy clip not Congresswoman Gifford’s shooting
I kinda wish you did American territories too. It would’ve been cool seeing the best players from American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Well I got curious so I looked it up myself:
American Samoa: The only baseball player that’s come out of American Samoa is 1st baseman Tony Solaita. He was actually a pretty productive hitter for the mid 70’s Royals and Angels teams putting up 8 fWAR over his career.
Puerto Rico: The incomparable Roberto Clemente. The best player from Puerto Rico and it’s not even really close with his 94.9 fWAR nearly 25 more than the next. Exactly 3,000 hits, elite defender, and an incredible human. Nothing much else to be said.
Guam: Guam has only produced 2 baseball players, both of whom debuted in the 21st century. Now 3rd baseman John Hattig wins by technicality as he only played 13 games for a floundering mid 2000’s Blue Jays team. He beats out current Mets reliever Sean Reid-Foley who, even in spite of 7 years of major league activity loses out due to his career -0.1 career fWAR compared to Hattig’s 0.3 career fWAR.
U.S. Virgin Islands: Home to 19 former MLB players, the best of which being Yankees 2nd baseman Horace Clark. Best known for representing how little people understood about lead off hitters as he was the consummate lead-off hitter for those late 1960’s and early 1970’s Yankees teams, even leading the league in AB’s in 1969 and 1970 despite having a .286 obp in 1970. His career 15.6 fWAR narrowly beating out 2nd place Al McBean’s career 15 fWAR
@@d2s260 I love how Puerto Rico is so stacked with talent but has such an obvious GOAT. I know a few of the actual states are also like that, but still
@@soapsatellite Pretty much all the Caribbean Islands are "stacked with talent". I don't know if they all have one standout though.
@@jonskillings1258 Yeah, I can't really pinpoint who the GOAT is for Cuba, DR, or Curaçao. Aruba's is definitely Xander Boegarts though, but they're pretty middling compared to just Curaçao alone.
As a baseball history nerd with an ex from Cumming, GA, this video was right in my interests.
As a New Mexican we’ll probably be able to claim Alex Bregman as the best player to come out of New Mexico. And he actually grew up here. If he keeps on pace he’ll probably pass Kiner in career WAR in two more years.
I am *living* for the Bruce Hornsby reference at 47:09. One of the best concerts I’ve been to lately.
Another baseball connection regarding Tucson, during the Gabby Giffords shooting, the granddaughter of Dallas Green, who led the Phillies to their 1980 World Series win, was killed.
I too could look at pictures of Montana all day, and I live here haha
Its a big state, lots of cool stuff to see
Great video definitely deserves more views! Could you do another but instead do countries around the world? I think that would be really interesting as well. My bet is the 1920’s through the 1950’s will be stacked
In all fairness, the best baseball player from California, and arguably the best baseball player of all time, is Ted “Teddy Ballgame” Williams.
I never comment on UA-cam vids, but THANK YOU for time-stamping the states. I know it must have been a pain in the ass
Luckily I stayed organized for once and color coded all the states in my editing timeline. So all I had to do was go through and time stamp every color change
@nomorefielders W
46:02 the exact moment i realized that the background music is naive melody
15:33
isn't even the first result and it's the largest city in our state.
7:35 Nice Dillinger escape plan reference. Fun times
I think for over a year now, I’ve been trying to piece together what my favorite indie/alt bands are from every state. As someone who’s from Montana, as you requested this comment in the vid, Zoola’s Silkworm is probably the artist I’d choose to represent my home state. And as for NC, which if I’m not mistaken is your home state, I go back and forth between Ben Folds Five and Sparklehorse.
My friends all know me as a big Mark Vientos guy
Same
As someone who’s a huge baseball fan and geography/history nerd this is a perfect video, cannot wait for the pitchers one!
This video is right in my wheelhouse since I love baseball and geography. Also, since you asked, I have been to Montana. I drove across the state in 2008 and visited Glacier National Park. It is truly a beautiful state.
I’ve been to Montana. Absolutely beautiful place. Incredible. You have to go see it for yourself. Love the vid ❤️
Love videos like this. doing some like this but for country's would be really cool
55:03 *Adley Rutschman diabolically rubs his hands in the distance*
Okay, as someone who has spent a fair whack of time in Hawaii, you got the important pronunciations correct, and you got pretty close with the others; well done!
Re: Collins and Millerton
As small-town as it is, NYC commuter rail goes very close to Millerton. I'm on the opposite corner of the same county(Dutchess), and it's probably easier to get to Times Square from there than to me.
Also the most famous person from Dutchess County in a similar small town? Franklin Roosevelt.
Montana is pretty cool. Dry place though, fucked up my skin when I was a kid.
Awesome video, please do one for pitchers too. :)
1:03:00 I was not expecting NASCAR Rumble to be in this video. That's a crazy music choice hahaha
To clear the bull pen by 7 rows opposite field is impressive . Josh Phelps had underrated long ball power.
I’ve been to deadwood SD a really cool place gives you the mid 1800 cowboy feel of a town
Imma be real with you, you say Tris Speaker is a classic Texas name, but as a non-Texan, if you were to ask me what state he was from on name alone at gunpoint, I'd guess Massachusetts as my last words
For Missouri, you could have also done Ryan Howard or Yogi Berra.
Dillinger Escape Plan reference?? I had to party smash that like button
Jeff Bagwell moved to Connecticut at 1 and stayed in state through college
17:43 how ironic the Floridian had to rescue the Canadian from snow
Also Chipper is my favorite opponent of all time. 🍻 from this Mets fan.
I have been to Montana. The sky truly feels bigger there. I Wish you heaped a little more praise on Maryland, all you did was shit on Baltimore lol (lovely city btw, Babe was wrong). Anyways, great video as always, and it certainly deserved a like.
Not only should we have had a 2 Bonds moment, we should have had a Bonds-Griffey career.
The 1988 Pirates had the worse record, but at that time the leagues took turns with the #1 draft pick.
completely unrelated but i was at the game where that mookie clip at 1:02:24 is from
Fight Club was filmed in LA not Wilmington. They changed locations for some reason
No player from D.C. our Nations capital
I am from Montana! It’s the best state, come visit sometime, you won’t regret it! Aide note, the fact that you put for Montana, it has the most unique species of what?
Arky Vaughan was born in Arkansas but moved to California. He was arguably the best shortstop of the 1940s.(Heck, they nicknamed him Arky because he was from Arkansas!) But I won't complain with Brooksie.
Yogi Berra not being Missouri was a surprise.
Very surprised and a little disappointed to not see Lou Gehrig for New York.
Could argue for Musial for Pennsylvania, but Wagner is ok. Same thing with Rogers Hornsby for Texas.
Joe Jackson would've been the best player from South Carolina. Until he ruined his career.
There are some Negro Leaguers I could mention. Oscar Charleston (The Willie Mays before Willie Mays) of Indiana. Pop Lloyd can also be mentioned for Florida (He was known as the Black Wagner. Wagner himself said that it was an honor to be compared to Lloyd.) Cool Papa Bell for Missouri. Buck Leonard for North Carolina (The Black Lou Gehrig).
Mentioned Sicks’ Stadium so I’m dropping this - I wrote a story on the history of the Brewers and it’s connections to Seattle. Sicks’s stadium was a fun part of it. If you’re interested in it hmu, it could be a fun read
NMF does not know that most people that go to ASU are from California
My friend is related to Gehringer (we are also from MI)
Hell yeah another NMF banger
Poor shoeless Joe Jackson. He deserved more. Like some shoes
My grandfathers uncle was like best friends with Mel Ott. His stats are ridiculous. Polo Grounds or not. Not a lot going for louisiana but mel ott was one of them
23:18 oh nooo, you're "buy-opic" guy???? 😂 your videos are amazing and i'm def teasing, but it's 1000000% bio-pic!
You know now that you say that I always wondered why the term sounded like a medical procedure.
nice vid (sorry for being super late)
I was hoping to see Roy Oswalt for Mississippi. Maybe the best pitcher?
I havent seen the vid yet but my state has to be Shoeless Joe Jackson 😂. If not Jim Rice. Also I'm liking because I want to see the pitchers too
I've been to Montana!
Dillinger Escape Plan 😤
Can you do this for countries?
Went to Montana State and lived in Bozeman for 4 years, ama!
What would happen if someone went there and called it "Boozeman"?
@@soapsatellite there isnt really an accent so they'd likely take it as a comment on the drinking there. When i was a student Bozeman drank more white claw per capita than anywhere else in the country!
That’s a lot of booze, man
Even though I don’t really consider white claw to be classic booze. It’s like calling wine booze.
Fun fact: Schmidt's high school was on Philadelphia Dr. Even though I'm a Reds fan I still view Schmidt was the best 3B ever, and yes this comes from a proud Daytonian.
Didn’t know that fight club took place in Delaware
Michael Harris II mentioned my Henry County twin
Some nice work break content
Damn 18 minutes in and ive gotta admit, im really starting to like Chipper Jones. Seems pretty nice to be a Braves fan
Alaska's a funny one because the discrepancy between best hitter and pitcher is staggering.
1:06:40 lead. Lead was in the water
A video like this makes me wish MLB the Show had every MLB HoFer who ever lived also players who’s numbers were retired by a team… except Cap Anson fuck that guy.
I feel like that would be really hard to implement unless you just assume all HoFers would perform just as well in every era even though training, strategy and player base have grown exponentially over time.
Otherwise, you'd have to add tons of average players from each era to contrast the HoFers against whilst still realistically nerfing them against players of later eras.
But that's a tall order since the further back you go, the less data you also have, and what contemporary accounts there are also become less reliable.
Best player from every country next? The player from At Sea is a GOAT
38:50 John Lowenstein is just a parallel universe Weird Al Yankovic who picked up a baseball bat instead of an accordion
colordao
Colordao
Colordao
The dao of color
I think Roger Clemens makes a good case for the best from Ohio
Pinegrove, Front Bottoms, French Cassettes.
Super based playlist
Not fair to georgia, we have more than just a ferris wheel, we also have a novelty KFC location
Believe it or not I actually have the big chicken shirt. Elite gym shirt imo.
29:50 red dead reference ?
MAAAAAYYYY I
Not Lou Gehrig for New York ?
Yayyyyyy! North Dakota mentioned, btw we are the better of the Dakota's
7:36 You just made a Metal Pun didn't you?
I would put Greg Maddux as the Nevada guy, any reason not to?
This is batters. Wait till the fielders vid.
I've been to Montana. Skill issue
how is this the video where i learn dale murphy was a rockie
You wanted the comment about Montana, I can tell you the state is nothing like the pictures, and also exactly like the pictures.
im surprised derek jeter wasn't the michigan choice
Mo Vaughn is an absolute dawg
59:53 nah New Mexico does
As a royals fan, mentioning Michael Massey legit made me jump
Watching this intro and suddenly I want to play my Wii
I always impress people with my ball knowledge
wait where is the playlist link
Whoops thank you for reminding me
open.spotify.com/playlist/3deWUdx7DbJ8TMqhJXmbsU?si=wYNdfkxfTLeloPRj2modxg&pi=u-1JXoXzsDReir
no griffey jr for pennsylvania?
Wagner betta
Swaggy V mention 🎉 (not the goat… yet)
So I have to ask was the video claimed by Toei because of the DBZ clip I know they go crazy with that ha ha
I’m a big fan of Randolph, but you can’t take the honor of South Carolina’s best away from Shoeless. Cobb, Ruth and others who would know said he was the best.
12:30 colordao
Lets go Colordao!!!
What about DC?