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While still coaching Columbia in the mid-1940's, Coakley, who, after over four decades in the game,
was considered by the Spectator a "shrewd judge of baseball talent" put together a list of the players
that would appear on his all-time all-star major league baseball squad. Click on each photo to view the player's career
statistics.
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Nap Lajoie, second base. "A constant threat to pitchers," Coakley said, "he was also a most graceful infielder.
Everything he did was effortless."
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Honus Wagner, shortstop. "There wasn't a thing he couldn't do," said Coakley.
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George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Outfield
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Louis Sockalexis, Outfield. "He wasn't only the greatest centerfielder, he was also the greatest athlete of all time,"
Coakley said of perhaps his most surprising choice on the team. "He could run as fast as Cobb, had an arm like Bob Meusel,
hit like Ruth, and fielded as well as [Tris] Speaker." Sockalexis, an obscure turn-of-the-century player who spent just three
seasons in the big leagues, also happened to have been a fellow alumnus of Holy Cross, Coakley's alma mater.
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Christy Mathewson, Pitcher "Not only was he a great student of the game," Coakley said, "but he could outguess most
of the batters who faced him. He had perfect control of a blinding fastball and a unique fallaway pitch which would break
straight down." Coakley was especially partial to Mathewson because he had faced the Giants hurler in the 1905 World Series
-- and lost, 9-0.
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Jimmy Collins, Third Base "The perfect third-sacker," Coakley said. "I've never seen anyone come in so fast on bunts
as he."
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Roger Bresnahan, Catcher "One of the finest baserunners in the game, and one of the few backstops who ever led off a
batting order," said Coakley.
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