My all time favorite Astros

[crapshooter]

Looking back at the years I've followed the 'stros I think this is my all time favorites...not necessiarily the best players but the ones I liked watching the best....

1B Rusty Staubb
2B Joe Morgan
SS Roger Metzgar?? sure I'm overlooking someone here
3B Ken Caminitti
OF Cesar Cedeno
OF Jose Cruzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
OF Lance Berkman
P Larry Dierker/Don Wilson/Nolan Ryan
c Big John Bateman

[astromania]

I have been following the Astros since'76, I like most of your picks, but mine would differ a little. Here are miy Favorite Astros:

1B- Bob Watson, Glenn Davis, Jeff Bagwell
2B- Bill Doran, Craig Biggio
3B- Enos Cabell, Ken Caminitti
SS- Dickie Thon
C- Joe Ferguson
OF- Terry Puhl, Lance Berkman
OF- Cesar Cedeno, Kevin Bass
OF- Jose Cruz, Richard Hidalgo

Sp- Mike Scott, J.R. Richard, Nolan Ryan, Roy Oswalt, Floyd Bannister

Rp- Dave Smith, Brad Lidge, Billy Wagner

Manager- Bill Virdon, Larry Deirker, Phil Garner

[muchojackdaniels]

Ken Caminitti has always been one of my favorites

[huevo_ranchero]

Dickie Thon would have been a great one if he had not caught that fastball in the eye.

[tarpon17]

Since when did the stro's have a memorable shortstop? For me its three guys who define Astro's; Ryan, Biggio, Bagwell

[crapshooter]

Oh there are so many more great players than those three...
The pitchers alone....JR Richard, Mike Scott, Don Wilson, Joe Niekro and outfielders Jim Wynn, Cesar Cedeno, Jose Cruz..
As for the shortstop Thon was going to be a great one...until he got hurt.

[Dolfin99]

I like Thon and Biggio. You can't go wrong with Mike Scott either.

[speedy27]

i especially liked watching these players...

C- Biggio
1B-Glenn Davis
2B-Doran, Biggio
3B-Caminiti
SS-Thon
OF-Hatcher, Cruz, Berkman
SP-Scott, Ryan, Oswalt
RP-Kerfield, Wagner, Lidge

[Payne Dailey]

I have been following the Astros since'76, I like most of your picks, but mine would differ a little. Here are miy Favorite Astros:

1B- Bob Watson, Glenn Davis, Jeff Bagwell
2B- Bill Doran, Craig Biggio
3B- Enos Cabell, Ken Caminitti
SS- Dickie Thon
C- Joe Ferguson
OF- Terry Puhl, Lance Berkman
OF- Cesar Cedeno, Kevin Bass
OF- Jose Cruz, Richard Hidalgo

Sp- Mike Scott, J.R. Richard, Nolan Ryan, Roy Oswalt, Floyd Bannister

Rp- Dave Smith, Brad Lidge, Billy Wagner

Manager- Bill Virdon, Larry Deirker, Phil Garner

Great list, I'd drop Ferguson and put Biggio in there at catcher and add Charlie Kerfeld to the RP list.

The guy was classic : "When Kerfeld, whose uniform number was 37, learned that Jim Deshaies had signed for $110,000 in 1987, he asked for and received $110,037.37 plus 37 boxes of orange Jell-O. Coming to the ballpark, he wore such things as pink high-tops or a Rambo fatigue outfit"

[billgrande]

What about Norm Miller? He joined the team the year the Astrodome opened and he's got a book out that's hilarious. It's got some players' names that would make great trivia fodder for every Astros card collector. Check it out. "To All My Fans from Norm Who" You can get it at normwho.com You'll laugh your ass off.

I have been following the Astros since'76, I like most of your picks, but mine would differ a little. Here are miy Favorite Astros:

1B- Bob Watson, Glenn Davis, Jeff Bagwell
2B- Bill Doran, Craig Biggio
3B- Enos Cabell, Ken Caminitti
SS- Dickie Thon
C- Joe Ferguson
OF- Terry Puhl, Lance Berkman
OF- Cesar Cedeno, Kevin Bass
OF- Jose Cruz, Richard Hidalgo

Sp- Mike Scott, J.R. Richard, Nolan Ryan, Roy Oswalt, Floyd Bannister

Rp- Dave Smith, Brad Lidge, Billy Wagner

Manager- Bill Virdon, Larry Deirker, Phil Garner