They exist in every sportplayers who can deliver when it counts the most and when the pressure is on. After a while the feats of such players take on a life of their owna mythology starts to surround them. In baseball, their final inning home runs soar out of stadiums like guided missiles, their fielding plays start to include jumps and stretches that would rate 10s from Olympic diving judges, and their willingness to take one for the team makes you think they deserve the Congressional Medal of Honor. So who are those few ball players who rise to the occasion when that occasion demands something big, stunning, and final?
Part fact and part fiction, clutch players arent judged so much by how many game-winning plays they make but by the circumstances under which they make them. Reggie Jackson built a career on heroics that annually occurred during the tenth month of the year, earning him the appellation Mr. October.
Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez has had a lot of hits that have won games, but often theyve come early in the game or in contests that were not in the limelight. Hes also made amazing defensive plays throughout his career. However, large numbers of...