Boston Red Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays - Recap - May 03, 2009 - ESPN

Carl Crawford steals six against the BoSox

CC did not show a lot of respect for Varitek's arm.

Crawford is on pace for 106 SB. His personal high is 59.

The six steals ties the major league record held by Eric Young, Otis Nixon, and Eddie Collins. Collins is the only guy to have done it twice, and he did them both in the same year! (He finished with 63 that year.)

Collins is a 3000-hit man with 744 lifetime stolen bases, a lifetime .333 hitter, one of the top four second basemen of all time, and a member of the Black Sox. (Collins, a straight arrow college man and a guy who hated to lose, was totally clean in the World Series scandal. The conspirators would never have considered approaching him to lose on purpose.)

There is no real dispute about the identities of the four greatest second basemen, but there is some controversy over their precise rank. Total Baseball ranks them 1. Lajoie 2. Hornsby 3. Collins 4. Morgan, and all are in the top 20 players of all time. Bill James's Win Shares ranks them 1. Collins 2. Morgan 3. Hornsby 4. Lajoie, and once again they are all in the top 20 players of all time. You can pretty much take any one of the four and defend his selection as the very best.