Hockey has the Stanley Cup, Basketball has the Larry O'Brien trophy, Canadian Football has the Grey Cup, American Football has the Vince Lombardi Trophy, Baseball does award the Cy Young trophy for the best pitcher in the AL and NL, but there is no name for the trophy given to the world series champion. Should baseball have a name for that trophy and if so what should it be. Best answer will be given to the most original concept.
2007-10-11 01:42:26 · 9 answers · asked by Frizzer 7 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Artistic: You are correct, I was thinking an actual name of a person who made a significant contribution such as the names I point out in other sports.
2007-10-11 02:09:45 · update #1
Chipmaker: Your way with words is unparalleled on this site, always accurate and you always bring a smile to my face, Thank you for the contribution.
2007-10-11 02:54:40 · update #2
I can just hear Bud Selig say, "It is my pleasure to present the Alexander Cartwright trophy to the owners of the Colorado Rockies Charlie and Dick Monfort".
2007-10-11 06:55:56 · update #3
How about the "Abner Doubleday" trophy or the "Alexander Cartwright" trophy depending on who of the two really invented the game.
There has always been controversy as to which of these two men actually invented the game of baseball.
2007-10-11 02:18:40 · answer #1 · answered by The Mick 7 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
It does have a name - it's called the Commissioner's Trophy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series_Trophy
Edit - I agree with Chip to some degree, but for different reasons. I think baseball has almost too many people that have contributed to the game to narrow it down. Landis would make sense since he was the first commissioner, but it's tough for me to forget that he was probably the one man most responsible for baseball being segregated so long.
I think to name it after any one person would end up belittling countless numbers of others who have contributed to the success of baseball.
But if I absolutely had to pick someone, I would name it after Bill Veeck, who remembered that the game was there for the enjoyment of the fans.
2007-10-11 01:59:07 · answer #2 · answered by artistictrophy@sbcglobal.net 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chip - Peter Ueberroth is the best commissioner in our lifetimes.
He was the reason baseball umpires didn't strike in 1984. Reinstated Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle - who were banned for not leaving jobs with casinos. He was also the man that first started the Pete Rose investigation.
bdough - did you just say that Connie Mack hardly won it??? He won 5 World Series as a manager.
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2007-10-11 06:18:49 · answer #3 · answered by Kris 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like the "Landis Trophy" idea but now that would be thought of as a tribute to Floyd and baseball needs to stay away from doping! I think it show the uniqueness of the sport that they do not have to name the trophy to have it have true prestige! Be different I say, do not put a persons name to it...if you do it would have to be someone of supreme importance...like Connie Mack, but then he hardly won it so that would be bad. A manager or owner that really defined it or the Commissioner from an important time...not Ueberoth!
2007-10-11 02:47:02 · answer #4 · answered by bdough15 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I like and respect players from all over the world no problem. Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Mahela Jayawardene, Brett Lee, Wasim Akram and Shane Warne are just some of my favourite players from overseas. I think most true cricket fans can appreciate great players and don't take a narrow, one-sided view of cricket.
2016-05-21 04:32:25 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think baseball has enough named honoraria, that practically no one knows about (either the awards or the names thereof), to consider the Commissioner's Trophy be similarly saddled.
Why draw comparisons between baseball and the lesser sports? Why should one care what they do?
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re/"Controversy" regarding Cartwright v. Doubleday for creator credit.
Piffle. That's like claiming there's a controversy in how we all got here -- one side has empirical evidence and sound, well-reviewed theory not reliably refuted, and the other side has a book (in its heavily-edited, nth revision) with an unattributed short story in it.
Cartwright is the "empirical evidence" guy.
Doubleday is mythology. Warm 'n fuzzy, appealingly charming, sounds like what we WANT the story to be, but put it into the merest zephyr of critical historical review and it's gone like a whiff of smoke.
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2nd ed: I wouldn't name a paper towel dispenser in honor of Peter Ueberroth.
2007-10-11 02:14:55 · answer #6 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes, and I believe it should be named after the greatest baseball player who ever lived... I propose a ceremonial name change to "The George Herman Ruth Trophy"
thoughts?
2007-10-11 02:06:14 · answer #7 · answered by Peter Griffin 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Meh, I don't think it matters much. I think that the names that are out there are for the announcers to embellish for TV and radio coverage.
If they did pick a name for it, I think that they should put it up for a vote to all of the living Hall of Fame members.
Personally, I like just calling it "hardware".
2007-10-11 02:01:46 · answer #8 · answered by MGopher007 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow, I never realized that. I think it should have a name, how about the "Kenesaw Mountain Landis Trophy".
2007-10-11 01:58:47 · answer #9 · answered by S M 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋