May 3, 2024

Arizona Baseball Legacy & Experience

Celebrating Arizona baseball

Vote for Scottsdale’s all-time All Star spring training team

In conjunction with our free exhibit at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, we’re teaming with the City of Scottsdale on a public vote to select an all-time Scottsdale spring training team.

Five Major League teams have called Scottsdale Stadium home – the Baltimore Orioles, the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago Cubs, the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants.

Who has earned the right to be an all-time Scottsdale All Star? Help us choose. Select your team from the nominations below. We’ll reveal the winners during the last week of spring training.

Who should make the cut? Those who had Hall of Fame careers?  Those who had a significant impact while training in Scottsdale? Those who stood out for a remarkable year or accomplishment?

We hope the list below captures a little bit of all those criteria. Like everything else in baseball, there will be room for debate.

Who deserves to be an all-time Scottsdale All Star? You make the call … follow this link to cast your vote.

Here’s the ballot:

First base (pick one)

  • Will Clark, Giants, 1986-2000
  • Ernie Banks, Cubs, 1967-71
  • Andres Galarraga, Giants, 2003

Second base (pick one)

  • Glenn Beckert, Cubs, 1967-73
  • Jeff Kent, Giants, 1997-2002
  • Manny Trillo, Cubs 1975-78 and Giants 1984-85

Third base (pick one)

  • Brooks Robinson, Orioles, 1956-58
  • Ron Santo, Cubs, 1967-73
  • Matt Williams, Giants, 1987-96

Short Stop (pick one)

  • Don Kessinger, Cubs, 1967-75
  • Edgar Renteria, Giants 2010-11
  • Brandon Crawford, Giants, 2011-present

Outfielders (pick three)

  • Barry Bonds, Giants 1993-2007
  • Carl Yastrzemski, Red Sox 1961-65
  • Billy Williams, Cubs 1967-74
  • Ted Williams, Red Sox 1959-60
  • Ricky Henderson, Athletics 1979-81
  • Andrew McCutchen, Giants 2018
  • Moises Alou, Giants, 2005-06
  • Jack Clark, Giants, 1982-84

Willie McGee, Giants, 1991-94

Catcher (pick one)

  • Buster Posey, Giants, 2009-202
  • Gary Carter, Giants, 1990
  • Benito Santiago, Giants, 2002-03

Starting pitcher (pick one)

  • Jake Peavy, Giants 2014-16
  • Tim Lincecum, Giants 2007-15
  • Fergie Jenkins, Cubs 1967-73
  • Madison Bumgarner, Giants 2009-19
  • Jim Lonborg, Red Sox, 1965

Relief pitcher (pick one)

  • Willie Hernandez, Cubs 1977-78
  • Bruce Sutter, Cubs, 1976-80
  • Joe Nathan, Giants,  1999-03 & 2016

Manager (pick one)

  • Bill Martin, Athletics, 1980-81
  • Bruce Bochy, Giants, 2007-19
  • Leo Durocher, Cubs, 1967-72
  • Dusty Baker, Giants 1993-2002