List the ten greatest baseball players of all time!?

Question

Give me alittle detail as to your picks. Best answer wins the points.

Answer 1

1.. Babe Ruth won 94 games as a pitcher, .690 slugging avg. .342 ligetime avg. 714 homers in 2503 games. 2. Ty Cobb 892 stolen bases 54 of home, 366 lifetime avg, 4191 hits 3. Hank Aaron 755 homers, 3771 hits 2297 rbi's 4. Lou Gehrig 493 homers .340 lifetime avg. 1995 rbi's in 2164 games 5. Ted Williams .344 lifetime avg. last player with over .400 avg., 521 homers 6. Willie Mays 660 homers 1903 rbi's great outfielder! 7. Stan Musial .331 lifetime avg. 475 homers, 1377 extra base hits 8. Mickey Mantle 536 homers 18 homers in world series, 1677 runs in 2401 games. Hit longest homerun ever! 9. Tris Speaker 793 doubles, 3515 hits .344 lifetime avg. Great outfielder! 10. Josh Gibson who never got the chance to play in the Majors but by all accounts was a great player who hit a lot of homeruns.

Answer 2

1.SCOTT PODSEDNIK
2.paul konerko
3.jermain dye
4.jim thome
5.freddie garcia
6.mark burhle
7.A.J. Pierzynski
8.Joe Crede
9.Juan Uribe
10.Tadahito Iguchi
^^haha jk

for real-
1) BABE RUTH: The man who made baseball famous throughout the world. Not only the greatest home-run hitter for years, but a World Series-class pitcher and - long before the word was coined - a superstar.

2) LOU GEHRIG Had he played for another team, in another era, Lou would have been an even bigger star. was the man who played tough for all these years in the shadow of the Babe.


3) TED WILLIAMS He came on the scene at just the right time to take the torch from the great Yankees!

4) WILLIE MAYS.Willie's stats - and his reputation in the field - make it no contest.

5) WHITEY FORD: Whitey is here for his statistics - admittedly for a very good team (but they were playing against very good teams in all these World Series, you know)

6) PETE ROSE: So he wasn't the brightest guy away from the diamond? he could hit and he could run and he could make things happen - with probably less natural baseball or athletic ability than anyone else on this list.

7) NOLAN RYAN: The other pitcher - and what a pitcher!

8) CAL RIPKEN Jr: when he beat Lou Gehrig's record

9) MARK McGWIRE:became the greatest slugger of them all.

10) MIKE PIAZZA: best-hitting catcher in the history of baseball

Answer 3

When a writer leaves a player off the ballot, that doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't think he's a hall of famer. For one, like others said, there are some people who never vote for anyone on their first ballot. Others might look at a player and say, "he's a Hall of Famer, but not a first ballot Hall of Famer" (like it or not, there's a special distinction to being a first ballot HOFer). And yet others, knowing that the player already has well over 75% of the vote anywa, might not vote for a player simply out of spite because he didn't like the guy or something. As far as Seaver goes, look at his numbers. He's almost never had a bad year, and has had several outstanding ones. Being at least "good", usually "great" and sometimes "amazing" is -extremely- difficult for a pitcher to do for nearly 2 decades. Bob Gibson didn't do that, and even Carlton had several really bad seasons. To put things in perspective, NO ONE in baseball history who pitched after 1930 had as low a career ERA as Seaver in as many innings pitched. In fact, he is arguably the best righthanded pitcher in the National League since Christy Mathewson, and possibly the best righthanded pitcher ever in the 60 or so years between Walter Johnson and Roger Clemens (who I think is most likely to break Seaver's vote record).

Answer 4

1.Babe Ruth
2. Reggie Jackson
3. Hank Arron
4. Mark McGwuire
5. Sammy Sosa
6. Albert Pujols
7. Barry Bonds
8.Randy Johnson
9. Nolan Ryan
10. Chris Carpenter

Answer 5

In no particular order:

Jackie Robinson
Babe Ruth
Hank Aaron
Ty Cobb
Cy Young
Roger Maris
Nolan Ryan
Ted Williams
Lou Gherig
Sandy Koufax

No individual reasons. Any baseball fan would know their stats and accomplishments speak for themselves.

Second team:

Harmon Killebrew
Paul Molitor
Mickey Mantle
Johnny Bench
Rollie Fingers
Willie McCovey
Willie Mays
Roger Clemens
Willie Stargell
Cal Ripken Jr.

I could do whole lineups, but this is good for now. May not get lots of responses, but I enjoyed the ?, thanks!

Answer 6

1) Hank Aaron - Home Run King
2) Sandy Koufax - Great Arm
3) Nolan Ryan - Blistering fastball
4) Lou Gehrig - True sportsman
5) Babe Ruth - Major Slugger
6) Jackie Robinson - First with the most
7) "Shoeless Joe" Jackson - Couldn't be bought off
8) Stan "The Man" Musial - Embodied the sport
9) Pete Rose - Gave 100% every time he stepped on the field
10) Johnny Bench - The heart of the "Big Red Machine"

Answer 7

1. Pete Rose-HOF snub, most hits
2. Nolan Ryan- the Ryan express has the most strikouts ever
3. Hank Aaron- 755
4. Cal Ripken Jr.- most games in a row
5. Don Drysdale- one of the most dominant pitchers ever
6. Rickey Henderson- FAST
7. Babe Ruth- brought the game to new heights
8. Reggie Jackson- Mr. October
9. Dennis Eckersley- created the closer
10. Honus Wagner-best pre-Ruth player

Answer 8

1. Ted Williams- greatest hitter, could have 600 hrs if it werent for wars
2. Willie Mays- Great fielder, base stealer, and great hitter
3. Roger Clemens- dominant in era where offense is prominent
4. Babe Ruth- the hitter with the best numbers to support him
5. Nolan Ryan- strikeouts, strikeouts, strikeouts
6. Barry Bonds- dont care what anybody says, great hr hitter, great average hitter, and one of the most patient hitters of all time
7. Reggie Jackson- a lot is said about a guy who can hit in october
8. Pete Rose- most hits, greatest intensity, its a shame he got banned for life
9. Ken Griffey Jr- despite all the injurys, still has 555 hrs. in his day, the greatest cf of all time, hit for average, rbis, power, and stole bases. if it werent for the injurys, hed be much MUCH higher
10. ty cobb- hitting machine

keep in mind there are so many players who could be on this list. there are only a few who are on every list, because the unbeleivable number of great players.

Answer 9

1.Lou gehrig
2. Jackie Robinson
3.Honus Wagner
4.Ty Cobb
5. Babe Ruth
6. Walter Johnson
7.Cy Young
8.Sandy Koufax
9.Satchel Paige
10.Ted Williams

Answer 10

Just the players that I saw:
C- Johnny Bench - clutch,good on offense and defense&winner.
P- Bob Gibson - mean,competitive and clutch.
1B- Willie McCovey - his swing,a landmark named after him (McCovey Cove).
2B- Joe Morgan - winner and that left arm flapping lik a chicken.
SS- Ozzie Smith - nickname and possibly the greatest glove man of all time regardless of position.
3b- Mike Schmidt - great slugger and good glove.
LF- Hank Aaron - home run king and one of the most under-rated players of all-time.
CF- Willie Mays - do I really need to say more?
RF- Roberto Clemente - great (arm,hitter and humanitarian).
Utility- Jackie Robinson - Changed the face of team sports.
All these players are NL/AL to follow.