Greatest TV Dads

Question of the day: who were the best TV/movie dads? Morty Seinfeld wore a #1 Dad t-shirt, but my favorites include The Middle's Mike Heck and Young Sheldon's coach George Cooper. Both are salt of the earth, ham & egger types.

Other luminaries:

Ward Cleaver

Andy Griffith

Not a fan of Mike Brady

Eddie Cook said Atticus Finch. Not sure how many sports-talk listeners knew who that was.

Phil Dunfy

Sam Baldwin Sleepless in Seattle

Ferb's father.

HERB PENNOCK  [SABR Bio] was the first pitcher to win major league games in his teens and in his forties. Pennock was 18 when he won a game for Philadelphia in 1912, and was 2‑0 for Boston at age 40 in 1934. Mike Morgan and Bert Blyleven have since joined this elite club. Pennock holds the record for most innings in a World Series career for an undefeated pitcher. He was 5-0 for the A's and Yankees over five World Series, pitched 55-1/3 innings. All five of his wins were with New York. He surrendered the first of Babe Ruth's 659 Yankee home runs, on 01-May-1920.

BOB FELLER  [SABR Bio] pitched the most one-hitters in American League history: twelve. He only played for the Indians. Nolan Ryan also had 12, spread over both circuits. Feller was the first president of the MLBPA. In December of 1956, Feller was elected the first president of the Players' Organization, a precursor to the MLBPA which was recognized as a union in 1966. He started a total of twenty-two games on a single day's rest. His record in those games was 14-5 with a 3.47 ERA, plus twelve complete games.

RICHIE ASHBURN  [SABR Bio] hit the most triples in the National League in the fifties. He tied Nellie Fox w/82 triples each. Ashburn also had the most MLB hits (1875), all with the Phillies. Of the eight times an outfielder totaled more than 500 putouts in a season, four of them are his. Ashburn had putout seasons of 538 (1951), 514 (1949), 503 (1956), & 502 (1957), representing 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 8th on the career list. Places nine and ten are also his: 496 (1953), 495 (1958), as well as 483 (1954), 428 (1952), and 405 (1950) representing 9th, 10th, 19th, 123rd, and 250th on the career list.