Who is the best baseball player of all time?

[wilheim]

1B) Jimmy Foxx
2B) Rogers Hornsby
3B) Mike Schmidt
SS) Arod
C) Mickey Cochrane
OF) Babe Ruth
OF) Ted Williams
OF) Willie Mays
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Awful hard to leave Hank Aaron off that list.




wil.

 

[Journeyman]

My Top 10 (not including pitchers)

Ruth
Mays
Williams
Aaron
Cobb
Musial
Bonds
Hornsby
Gehrig
Frank Robinson

 

[Journeyman]

The Top 10 I ever saw play ( atleast a portion of their career) and are now retired.

Mays
Aaron
F Robby
Clemente
R. Henderson
Eddie Murray
Mike Schmidt
George Brett
Reggie Jackson
Yaz

 

[WVU]

my top 10:

Nolan Ryan
Roger Clemens
Pete Rose
Williams
Mike Schmidt
Hank Aaron
Babe Ruth
Barry Bonds
Ty Cobb
Ichiro Suzuki

 

[levistep]

cobb=baller

Didn't he break some guy's leg after harassing him after a strikeout?

 

[Fishhead]

Read the classic book THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES and see if you don't come away believing ROGER HORNSBY was the greatest ever.

 

[ivyconniver]

Anybody with half a brain knows it is The Babe. Not even CLOSE. You want to talk about how he would do in today's game? The simple fact is, he was hitting monsterous home runs when nobody else was hitting them AT ALL. If you've been to the Stadium you know how far the wall was originally because its still there.

In 1927, Ruth's 60 home runs accounted for 14% of all home runs in the American League that year. To put that figure in modern perspective, a player would need to hit over 340 home runs in a season to account for 14% of the American League's total homerun output.

After the Red Sox sold him to the Yankees, Ruth single-handedly outhomered the entire Boston team in 10 of the next 12 seasons.

Oh, by the way, he was also 94 and 46 with a 2.28 career ERA, when he was used as a pitcher.

The Babe would piss on Bonds if he were alive today, then he'd fire up a good cigar, lace his cleats up, and go win another ballgame.

 

[Degenerate]

Three pages and no mention of Joe DiMaggio. Both Willie Mays and Joe D spend the majority of their careers in home parks that worked against them.

 

[husker]

when ruth played, HR's were fair or foul by where they landed, not if they pass inside a foul pole. he would have had a LOT more HR's if the rules were like today when he played.

hands down Ruth!

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Three pages and no mention of Joe DiMaggio. Both Willie Mays and Joe D spend the majority of their careers in home parks that worked against them.

We are talking best of the best...that is why Joe D. isn't mentioned...:thumbsup:

 

[fhmesq44]

Three pages and no mention of Joe DiMaggio. Both Willie Mays and Joe D spend the majority of their careers in home parks that worked against them.

so did Williams

 

[joeyfitzclick]

Craig Grebek

 

[joeyfitzclick]

Here are Craigs stats from his year in Boston in 2001.



2001 Red Sox 23 41 1 2 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 9 0 0 0 0 .049 .093 .073

 

[paftraft]

Without going to the stat books look at the SLG. PCT.
Ruth-----------.688
Williams-------.630
The only other players with over .600 lifetime I think were Foxx, Gerhig,
Greenberg. This says a lot to me.
Williams & Ruth by a mile in offensive stats.

 

[RupertPupkin]

Rank Player (age) Slugging % Bats
1. Babe Ruth+* .6898 L
2. Ted Williams+* .6338 L
3. Lou Gehrig+* .6324 L
4. Albert Pujols (27) .6218 R
5. Jimmie Foxx+ .6093 R
6. Barry Bonds* (42) .6070 L
7. Hank Greenberg+ .6050 R
8. Manny Ramirez (35) .5954 R
9. Mark McGwire .5882 R
10. Todd Helton* (33) .5831 L
11. Vladimir Guerrero (31) .5806 R
12. Joe DiMaggio+ .5788 R
13. Rogers Hornsby+ .5765 R
14. Alex Rodriguez (31) .5757 R
15. Larry Walker* .5652 L
16. Albert Belle .5638 R
17. Jim Thome* (36) .5631 L
18. Johnny Mize+* .5620 L
19. Frank Thomas (39) .5612 R
20. Juan Gonzalez .5607 R

 

[Donnybasbl]

I didn't see Mays during his prime and none of you saw Ruth during his prime. How can you vote for anyone you've never seen play?

Bonds is the best i've ever seen play.

 

[JETE]

the equipment is better now,the mound is lower,the fences are shorter

the pitching is horrid due to expansion.

therefore you cant compare "stats"

 

[BigAFan]

I think Ryan Sandberg was good, but no i'm not saying he was the best.

 

[RupertPupkin]

Man , for all the Bonds Haters on this site , It looks like we might have some closet fans afterall , Only 2 votes behind the Babe !!!!

 

[betedgeonly]

CLOSE THIS THREAD:


IT'S BABE RUTH PERIOD.

Discusssion over. No other player will play both positions as he did again. HE DOMINATED THE GAME LIKE NO ONE ELSE DID or will. About 10 other guys will have 500 HR's around the same time BONDS Did. DOMINATION is having more HR's than some entire teams.

Start another thread when BONDS pitches 30 consecutive scoreless innings in the WORLD SERIES (FOR BOSTON as well).

Bonds .299 career batting avg. RUTH .342.

He spent 4 years pitching full time with never more than 136 at bats (ADD 3 more years of HR's to his stats) an easy 100 more to boot. In his 3 years of only pitching he was 18-8, 23-12, and 24-14 lead the league in ERA 1916 as well.

CASE CLOSED.


IT is the HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT as well, no one else built SHIT.

I agree. Was'nt the Babe a catcher also before he started pitching?