One-Team All Stars

[Babe Adams]

Here's an All-Star team of players for whom the Pirates were their only MLB team, excluding current players:

C - Jack Shepard
1B - Willie Stargell
2B - Bill Mazeroski
3B - Pie Traynor
SS - Gene Alley
LF - Clyde Barnhart
CF - Carson Bigbee
RF - Roberto Clemente

SP - Sam Leever
SP - Ray Kremer
SP - Vern Law
SP - Francisco Cordova
SP - Steve Blass
RP - Rich Loiselle

MGR - Danny Murtaugh

Carson Bigbee was mostly a left fielder, only about 100 games in center. Jack Shepard only played three years in the majors, in the 1950s. It seems he could play, but he left baseball to join the administration at Stanford, then became a successful businessman. I think that Branch Rickey would have approved.