This is a spin off of the NBA thread. I read were a couple people thought baseball players today are better than in the other decades. After living to watch these era's, I must respecfully disagree. Honestly, I think the 70's and 80's were both better than today. Here is an all decade team of the 70's and 80's I have put together:

70's
C - Johnny Bench
1B - Rod Carew
2B - Joe Morgan
3B - Mike Schmidt
SS - Dave Concepcion
LF - Willie Stargell
CF - Bobby Murcer
RF - Reggie Jackson
Utility - Pete Rose

RHP - Tom Seaver
RHP - Jim Palmer
RHP - Catfish Hunter
RHP - Gaylord Perry
LHP - Steve Carlton
Relief - Rollie Fingers

80's
C-Gary Carter
1B-Eddie Murray
2B-Ryne Sandberg
3B-Mike Schmidt
SS-Ozzie Smith
LF-Rickey Henderson
CF-Dale Murphy
RF-Dave Winfield
DH-Paul Molitor

SP
Dwight Gooden
Nolan Ryan
Oral Hershisher
Roger Clemens
Bret Saberhagen

RP (in no particular order)
Goose Gossage
Bruce Sutter
Rollie Fingers

Yes

70's and 80's. Everyone had a shot. No Yankees, Red Sox, etc to bid against.

50's and 60's

I don't know if it is just circumstance in that my major influences were around more and I was a kid, but I loved baseball in the 80s. At that time, I pretty much knew the roster for every team and could recite yearly and career stats for all the big names (and my lesser known favorite players). I also had/have great interest in anything about the 70s.

I thought baseball was hitting a good stride in the 90s, too, right up until the strike. That pretty much killed it for me. I coached for about five years after that, but my interest in MLB dwindled.

Live games are a nice novelty, but I've gone to more minor league games while traveling than anything else. I got into the Phillies run the year before last because I was working over there and actually got to go to both parts of their clinching game. Outside of that, I follow it everyday but can't really watch more than one or two innings (minus the White Sox Series run a few years ago). Just isn't the same anymore.

Unfortunately I am jaded about baseball and the steroid issue. Tough to debate a decades prominence without steroids being mentioned at least for me.

Nice list Little Danny ... I would probably make only one change:

Dave Stewart, SP (4 straight seasons of 20+ wins 1987-90) over Saberhagen

For the record, the 80s is when I began to love baseball. George Foster homered for the Mets in my first game, and I was hooked. Then in 1986 I went to 31 games, including the pennant-clincher, and the rest is history (unfortunately for me, that was as good as it got to be a Mets fan ) ...

2000's due to 'roids.

It was easily the best in the 60's.

Give me Gibson, Koufax, Marichal and a dozen HOF OFers.

sleeper wrote: 2000's due to 'roids.

That's "raroids"

Each season in each decade has had its own stories and its own stretches of teams that were dominant... I think you have to look at each on individually

All I know for sure is that there was some really bad baseball in Cleveland for 35 years.

enigmaax wrote: I don't know if it is just circumstance in that my major influences were around more and I was a kid, but I loved baseball in the 80s. At that time, I pretty much knew the roster for every team and could recite yearly and career stats for all the big names (and my lesser known favorite players). I also had/have great interest in anything about the 70s.

I thought baseball was hitting a good stride in the 90s, too, right up until the strike. That pretty much killed it for me. I coached for about five years after that, but my interest in MLB dwindled.

Live games are a nice novelty, but I've gone to more minor league games while traveling than anything else. I got into the Phillies run the year before last because I was working over there and actually got to go to both parts of their clinching game. Outside of that, I follow it everyday but can't really watch more than one or two innings (minus the White Sox Series run a few years ago). Just isn't the same anymore.

First off, little danny great list. Enigmaax, I agree with your assessment. I loved the 80's easily over any decade.
Strawberry, Gooden and the Mets I could watch every day and enjoy it.

I'll take the 70's and 80's any day. jmo