Tuesday Discussion - Favorite Fictional Baseball Player

This week we asked our writers to name their favorite fictional baseball player(s).

Here are their answers:

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Ed Botti - I Gotta go with Crash Davis of the Durham Bulls played by Kevin Costner. He was a veteran, smart and savvy catcher in the minor league. He was a terrific mentor for his younger teammates, especially pitchers.

The film succeeds at finding a way to capture both the optimism of a brilliant future and the reality and struggles of years in a team's minor league system.

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Paul Semendinger - If I can only pick one player, it would have to be Roy Hobbs. The Natural is one of my favorite movies of all-time. (It's not quite Rocky, but nothing is.)

Honorable mention goes to Charlie Brown and Sylvester Coddmyer from the wonderful book The Kid Who Only Hit Homers by Matt Christopher.

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Ethan Semendinger - Kazuo Uzuki. I know you never heard of him. This is a player pictured on a 2008 Topps baseball card that was part of a hoax.

You can read the story here: REMEMBER THE TIME TOPPS DID A LONG-PLAY APRIL FOOLS’ JOKE WITH KAZUO UZUKI?

Honorable Mention goes to Pablo Sanchez and Pete Wheeler of Backyard Baseball.

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Cary Greene - Mine would have to be Casey from Ernest Thayer's classic "Casey at the Bat." I remember reading it for the first time as a little kid and it always stuck with me but it just gets better with time.

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