Official "Top 5 favorite" list thread

My top five Stephen King books:

1. The Stand (no question)
2. The Shining
3. It
4. Needful Things
5. Pet Sematary

 

What, no love for The Pelican Brief, PDB?

 

How can he kill off a character named for Archie Manning? I can't support that.

EDIT: I stand corrected -- he didn't kill off Justice Manning. But it was still a piece o' shit book.

 

Five favorite Saints
1. Sam Mills (Pick a reason ... )
2. Morten Andersen (Powerful leg, won many a close game prior to and during Jim Mora's tenure with the club)
3. Archie Manning (Sorry guys ... needed more than Henry Childs to keep Manning as productive as he could have been)
4. Rickey Jackson (Consistent and superb)
5. Dalton Hilliard (He didn't last long enough ... )

Honorable mention: Vaughan Johnson, Bobby Hebert, Fred McAfee, Gene Atkins, Willie Roaf, Danny Abramowicz and Eric Martin.

And I agree with Dools: Any top-five non-fiction baseball book list without "Ball Four" leaves room for serious debate.

 

Top five John Feinstein sports books:
1. A Season On the Brink
2. A March to Madness
3. The Last Amateurs
4. A Good Walk Spoiled
5. A Season Inside

 

My Top 5 Stephen King novels

1. The Stand
2. It
3. The Shining
4. Needful Things
5. The Dark Half

 

List of songs with a city in the title must include the Pogues' 'Fairytale of New York.'

Five favorite NY Giants in my lifetime
1. Pepper Johnson
2. Lawrence Taylor
3. Harry Carson
4. Phil Simms
5. Tiki Barber

Five best Grateful Dead orginal songs
1. Stella Blue
2. China Doll
3. Brokedown Palace
4. Jack Straw
5. Estimated Prophet

Top five English Romantic poets
1. Percy Shelley
2. William Blake
3. John Keats
4. William Worsdworth
5. George Gordon

Top five bourbons
1. Old Fitzgerald
2. Knob Creek
3. Booker
4. Woodford Reserve
5. Wild Turkey

 

Top 5 nonfiction baseball books:

1. Ball Four
2. Summer of '49
3. Eight Men Out
4. The Glory of Their Times
5. The Boys of Summer

Honorable mention: "Sport Magazine's All-Time All Stars," edited by Tom Murray. (ISBN 0-689-10791-9; Atheneum Publishing, New York: 1977.)

I first read this when I was 8. Read it at least a dozen times afterward before somehow losing my dog-eared paperback that had lost both front and back covers, and had 13 pages that had been ripped out and stuck back in. ... Found a first-edition hardcover for $15 in a local bookstore a month ago. Was as excited to find it again as I was when I was 8. ... That book still colors my impressions of the 22 HOFers profiled. Outstanding stuff.

 

I also want to chime in that 'Misery' is King's best book.
And no beer list is complete without Royal Oak and Stone IPA.

 

"The Long Season" should have done that, too, dools, as should have his follow-up, "Pennant Race." But controversy didn't grab everybody's attention as much back then.

re Monkees: Good list. My sleeper by them: "What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round?"

 

I love the Monkees. My top 5 songs:
1. 'Your Auntie Grizelda'
2. 'Randy Scouse Git'
3. 'Stepping Stone'
4. 'Mary Mary'
5. 'Valleri'

 

Favorite Yankees position players of my lifetime (saw first game in 1962):

1. Mickey Mantle
2. Reggie Jackson
3. Derek Jeter
4. Paul O'Neill
5. Bernie Williams

favorite Yankee pitchers:

1. Mariano Rivera
2. Whitey Ford
3. Ron Guidry
4. Goose Gossage
5. Mel Stottlemyre