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Who is the GREATEST baseball player ever?

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Who is the best OVERALL baseball player ever?

  • Babe Ruth

    Votes: 32 59.3%

  • "Shoeless" Joe Jackson

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Pete Rose

    Votes: 7 13.0%

  • Ted Williams

    Votes: 2 3.7%

  • Other-----Please explain your selection

    Votes: 12 22.2%
  • Total voters
    54
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George Herman Ruth

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While I'd like to argue it was Teddy Williams, I can't. Ruth's final 500+ HRs we him extending his own record. That is absolute domination. He could hit... and for average... people don't realize he's stolen home 10times... he could pitch... Yeah, he beefed up on hot dogs and such, but ... still the best of all time.
 
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Josh Gibson? Really it's hard to say who the greatest ever is when most of the people that are under consideration we never saw play. I know the argument for Ruth with the 100 pitching victories and the offensive stats but I don't buy into the Babe Ruth hype. Honestly there really is no argument to be made for Shoeless Joe. .356 hitter, 1700+ hits, 50 some HR's, average fielder (% wise). Willie Mays would probably get my vote, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb the runners up.
 
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JCOSU86;796658; said:
He was a racist bastard but I have to go with:

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Loved the line in "Cobb" where he's at some Las Vegas night club and they call him up to the stage and the entertainer says, basically, "Mr. Cobb, you hit like .350 for your career.... but how do you think you you'd hit against today's hitters?"

"Probably around .290"

".290? Like I said, you hit over .350 for your career"

"Yeah, but I'm 65 years old."

:slappy:

DOn't know if that ever really happened, but it's a great line.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
While I'd like to argue it was Teddy Williams, I can't. Ruth's final 500+ HRs we him extending his own record. That is absolute domination. He could hit... and for average... people don't realize he's stolen home 10times... he could pitch... Yeah, he beefed up on hot dogs and such, but ... still the best of all time.
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I bought this 2 days ago. He is a hero of mine, one of the GREATEST, because of his science of the sport and his heroism in war......to him it didn't matter what he did in uniform (military), it is what he did for baseball.....
 
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