SOME OF THE ALL-TIME GREAT RIGHT-HANDED HITTERS

Most of your ballplayers today are right handed, particularly pitchers and first basemen along with catchers. The development of the game dictated that right-handed players would dominate.

Some of the greatest players of all-time were right handed as they are in today’s game. As we looked at the left-handed greats we now look at the right-handed who have made the sport of baseball so popular and statistically interesting.

Hank Aaron

‘Hammering Hank’ didn’t just get the name, he earned it having 200 hits three times, and over 190 four other times. He scored over 100 runs 15 times, led the league in total bases eight times, and had a .305 career batting average for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves, with 755 career home runs.

Roberto Clemente

Probably the most complete ballplayer ever the Pittsburg Pirate outfielder won four batting titles, a .317 lifetime average, and exactly 3,000 hits, before tragically dying on a humanitarian mission in the 1970’s.

Joe DiMaggio

The legendary Joe DiMaggio owned a .325 lifetime average, twice as many walks as strikeouts, and that 56-game hitting streak. He could move through the outfield effortlessly and made everything look easy.

 

Jimmie Foxx

Foxx hit his 500th home run the year he turned 32 years old. At that point in his career, he had nearly 1,500 runs scored, over 1,700 RBI, and a .334 batting average.Career: 534 HR (17^th lead the league 4 times), .325 BA (40th), 1922 RBI (9th), 1B/3B/C, Elected into the Hall Of Fame in 1951, 3xMVP, 9xAllStar, Athletics/RedSox/... 1925-1945,

 

Hank Greenberg

The Detroit Tiger’s Hank Greenberg lost four-and-a-half years due to service to his country in World War II. Greenberg played only 19 games in 1941 and then didn't play again until the last 78 games of 1945. The war and injuries limited Hank to only 11 seasons, and in those seasons he led the American League in home runs and RBI four times each, bases on balls twice, and total bases twice, topping 200 hits three times, once hit 63 doubles, and batted .313 for his career average. He is also one of eight right-handed hitters in baseball history in the "3-4-5 Club," meaning batting average over .300, on-base percentage over .400, and slugging percentage over .500.

Harry Heilmann

Heilmann was the winner of four batting titles in 15 seasons with single-season batting averages of .394, .403, .393, and .398 in a span of six years.

Rickey Henderson

The stolen base maven finished with 2,200 career runs scored, 3,000 career hits, 500 career doubles, 1,400 career-stolen bases, and .401 career on-base percentage. He also had some power, and could be the best leadoff player of his time.

Rogers Hornsby

Hornsby led the National League in batting average for six straight years, He was the leader in on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, and OPS, in hits four times, runs three times, doubles four times, triples once, home runs twice, RBI four times, and total bases five times! He had 200 hits five out of the six years, including seasons with 227, 235, and 250.

In 1922, he had 450 total bases in 154 games, and from 1922 to 1925, he hit .400 combined, finishing with batting averages of .401, .384, .424, and .403.

Nap LaJoie

LaJoie won five batting titles and owned a .338 career batting average playing second base. In 1901, LaJoie hit .426 with 232 hits, 14 home runs, 125 RBI, and 143 runs—all of which led the league—in only 131 games!

 

Willie Mays

The ‘Say Hey Kid’ led the NL in home runs and stolen bases four times each, but never in the same year. A 300 career batting average, with over 560 homers he was one of the most feared players in baseball. Playing for mostly the San Francisco Giants, he is famous for his basket catches, and the famous over the head catch and throw into the infield to hold a runner, during the 1954 World Series.

 

Frank Robinson

Frank Robinson won two MVPs, Once with the Cincinnati Reds and one with the Baltimore Orioles,  a Triple Crown, 1,800 runs, 1,800 RBI, and 586 home runs. He then went on to become a respected manager.

Mike Schmidt

The Philadelphia Phillies Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt led the NL in home runs eight times, RBI and walks four times each, and OPS five times. He was the heart and soul of the Phillies when he played.

Al Simmons

Simmons won back-to-back batting titles in 1930 and 1931, during which he hit a combined .385 with 257 runs scored and 293 RBI. Simmons finished his career with the Philadelphia A’s with a .334 average, 1,500 runs, 1,800 RBI, and 2,927 hits.

Honus Wagner

The first great hitter in baseball history, he was a bowl-legged shortstop for the Pittsburg Pirates who was considered a right-handed Ty Cobb, Wagner won eight career batting titles 

That's all I wrote, folks!