Wednesday Weekly Contest

All right, no promises but I am going to try and get the Weekly Wednesday Contest back on track today.

Toward the end of the baseball season last year I held contests where your entry consisted of sharing you favorite First Baseman and Second Baseman of all time.  Let's move on to the next position on the diamond, Third Base.

For this week's contest, post a comment with your list of your 3 favorite Third Basemen of all time from your favorite team.  If you don't have a favorite team, just list your favorite 3 Third Basemen of all time.   I will close it out on Saturday night and all the people that enter will be randomed on Random.org 3 times to identify a winner. The winner can pick something off my prize page.   Should be pretty simple and lots of fun.

I will share mine now to get us started.  I had a hard time deciding between the first two:

1. Matt Williams - Matty was one of the best third baseman in the league for a pretty decent stretch.  He is probably best remembered for the strike year when he was on pace to break the single season home run record before play ended.  Nobody will ever know if he would have been the first to break Maris' record but my guess is he probably would have fallen short.  Not because he wasn't a great hitter, I just think the media pressure and difficulty in hitting that many homers without being chemically enhanced would have been too much. Williams fielding is often overlooked but he was strong defensively as well.

 2. Pablo Sandoval - The Kung Fu Panda may end up at the top of the list some day soon and his 3 homer performance in Game 1 of the World Series was historic and got him close to the top of my list.  For now though he needs a couple more All Star years under his belt (and what a belt it is!) to gain the top spot in my countdown.

3. Jim Davenport - I am going to go a little old school and somewhat obscure and pick Jim Davenport as my third favorite.  There were some other solid candidates like Darrell Evans, Jimmy Ray Hart, Bill Madlock, and Bill Mueller but I decided to go with Davenport.  He was the Giants manager for 1 year in 1985 and was an All Star and Gold Glove winner back in 1962.  Around the time that Davenport became manager of the Giants, my dad gave me his collection of cards that included Jim's 1959 and 1960 Topps cards.  As the Giants manager and third baseman of my dad's era, he became a favorite of mine.

Let's see your top 3 for an entry into the Wednesday Weekly Contest!