Great tribute to one of the classiest players to ever play the game. The number of players who had the same great combination of both class and skill can be counted on one hand: Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Lou Gehrig and Ernie Banks.Actually, you can add Christy Mathewson, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Roberto Clemente, three Robinsons (Jackie, Frank, and Brooks), Sandy Koufax, Andre Thornton, Mike Schmidt, Gary Carter, Andre Dawson, Dale Murphy, Ryne Sandberg, and Tom Glavine to that group.
I’m sure Ernie would move over and make room for them, but it is still a pretty small list.
and add to your list my boyhood hero Warren Spahn.
Harmon Killebrew perhaps?