THE WONDERLAND WARRIORS are CBA's team of military personnel. The Warriors have been playing cosmic baseball since 1983 and typically field competitive teams. The Warriors were a strong team during the 1980s and they won the Cosmic Universal Series twice in 1987 and 1989. In the 1990s the team has fallen on tougher times. This season's team includes a dozen rookies including a new team owner, the mythological Greek god of war, Ares.
THE LANNING RATING. For the first time this year we have utilized the Lanning Military Leadership Ratings.Michael Lanning has written The Military 100 (Citadel Press. New Jersey. 1996), an interesting book about the 100 most influential military leaders in history. Twenty of the Warriors on this year's roster have been ranked by Lanning. These rankings appear at the player's entry on this plate.
For your information, the five most influential military leaders as ranked by Lanning are: George Washington, Napoleon I, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Julius Caesar. In his "Foreword" Mr. Lanning writes:
The most influential leaders in world history have come not from the church, the halls of government, or the scholastic centers, but from the ranks of soldiers and sailors.
PLAYER PLATES. Individual player plates will be published during the season. Player plates provide more detailed information about the player and generally include links to other related sites. If a player has a plate use the hypertext link on the name next to their image in this roster. If you have additional information about a player or corrections to the current information, please write to us at editor@cosmicbaseball.com. We very much appreciate your comments.
Available Warrior Player Plates
The standard definition of war is that its object is to impose the will of one group upon a rival group. The absence of war, when objectives are agreed upon, is peace. But peace is not war's true opposite.Mythology suggests the way here. Ares, the Greek god of War, fell in love with Aphrodite who at the time was married to Hephaestus. Dismayed at Ares' behavior, Hephaestus trapped and exposed the adulterous affair to the other gods. Plato points out that Ares the warrior-conquereor was himself conquered by love. (Symposium, 196d). The absence of war may be peace, but the opposite of war is love. The counterculture of the 1960s understood this intuitively as the then-popular mantra "make love not war" suggests.
It is, of course, naive to believe that war can be eradicated by love, diplomacy, or any other means. It is as much a part of human nature as love. And like love, war is often about great passions.
It might make for a less tragic reading of history if the golden rule of Zen Judaism, "play nice, don't fight" had always been followed, but, alas, that's not our human way.
COSMIC PLAYER RECORDS. If the CBA Baseball icon (shown left) appears at a player's roster entry, then a link to that player's cosmic record in the CBA statistical database is available. Just click on the baseball icon to view the player's cosmic record.
Italics indicates Rookie
Omar Bradley, 2bMoshe Dayan, if
Chester Nimitz, 1b
Winfield Scott, 3b
Isoroku Yamamoto, c/if
R.D.Camp, cfVo Nguyen Giap, lf
David Hackworth, of
Genghis Khan, rf
Ivan Konev, of
George Patton, of
James Wilkinson, of
Mike Boorda
Norman Schwarzkopf, Field ManagerAttila the Hun, Coach
David Farragut, Coach
Michael Lanning, Coach
Cyrus the Great, General ManagerAres, Team Owner
Memorial Stadium, Home Field
AresGreek God of War
*
Team Owner
Attila the Hun
King of the Huns
c. 406-453
Pitcher
Lanning Rating: 5/100
United States Admiral
1938-1996
Pitcher
United States Army General
1893-1981
Secondbase
Lanning Rating : 46/100
United States Army Lieutenant
*
Pitcher
United States Marine Captain
*
Centerfield
Prussian General
1780-1831
Pitcher
Lanning Rating : 21/100
United States Army Colonel
1839-1876
Pitcher
Cyrus the GreatPersian king
circa 550 B.C.
Coach
Lanning Rating : 10/100
Israeli General
1915-1981
Infield
Lanning Rating : 69/100
David FarragutUnited States Admiral
1801-1870
Coach
Lanning Rating : 87/100
b. 1912
Leftfield
Lanning Rating : 40/100
Latin American Revolutionary
1928-1967
Pitcher
United States Army Colonel
*
Outfield
Mongol King
1167-1227
Rightfield
Lanning Rating : 4/100
Soviet Marshal
1897-1973
Outfield
Lanning Rating : 54/100
United States Army Sergeant
b. 1969
Pitcher
Michael LanningUnited States Army Lt. Colonel
*
Coach
(American) Confederate General
1807-1870
Pitcher
Lanning Rating : 60/100
Chinese Marshal
1907-1971
Pitcher
Lanning Rating : 76/100
*
Catcher
United States Army General
1880-1964
Infield
Lanning Rating : 20/100
United States Army General
1880-1959
Shortstop
Lanning Rating : 16/100
South American Revolutionary
1778-1850
Pitcher
Lanning Rating : 52/100
United States Admiral
1885-1966
Firstbase
Lanning Rating : 61/100
United States Army General
1885-1945
Outfield
Lanning Rating : 95/100
United States Army General
b. 1934
Field Manager
Lanning Rating : 49/100
United States Army General
1786-1866
Thirdbase
Lanning Rating : 32/100
Chinese Writer
circa 350 B.C.
Pitcher
Lanning Rating : 23/100
United States Marine Lt. Colonel
*
Outfield
1884-1943
Catcher/Infield
Lanning Rating: 77/100
Memorial StadiumHome Park
Seating Capacity: 44,000
Wonderland Warriors- 1997 Official Team Roster
URL http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/97wwr.html
Published: January 15, 1997
Modified: December 4, 1999
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