2006-08-01 04:51:28 · 37 answers · asked by Q 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
gotta be Ted Williams, or Carl Yamstrenski, most inspirational player is Roberto Clemente, best modern day player Derek Jeter only 28 i think and got more rings then anyone...
2006-08-03 04:22:29 · answer #1 · answered by Quentin 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ruth. He had a higher OPS+ than anyone in history, and was farther ahead of the second place guy(Ted Williams) than Williams was ahead of the fifth place guy. He changed the way the game was played. Offense is what wins games, and he was the best, by far.
I saw someone say Jeter, which is laughable. In no season during his career was he the best SS in the game, much less ever.
Geez, all these guys and their "all-around" crap. Being good at everything doesn't make you a better baseball player. Willie Mays was a great player, but what you do with the bat is nearly infinitely more valuable than the glove or on the basepaths.
Mays isn't even close to Ruth in the most important aspects of the game: getting on base and hitting for power.
2006-08-01 07:16:10 · answer #2 · answered by desotobrave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Willie Mays - I will keep saying/thinking this until I no longer can; all players and records that occurred before 1947 (Jackie Robinson/integration) should be looked at differently.
Additional info: it is widely known that when Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson was not the best player in the ***** Leagues by a long shot. You can use this reasoning to imagine just how many good/great black players were denied entrance into MLB between 1900 and 1947.
2006-08-01 12:49:43 · answer #3 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babe Ruth.
BTW, someone above said Sandy Koufax once stuck out 20 men in a game 3 times within a week. Never happened. Koufax never struck out 20 people in a game. Never even struck out 19 in a game. Where do folks come up with this nonsense? lol
The Jeter answer is, of course, misguided. I'm not a math whiz, but how can a player with a .316 lifetime batting average be called a .340 hitter? But that's not even the point. The fact is that he IS a great player. However if someone is not even the greatest of all time at his position (see Wagner, Ripken, Vaughn, among others), how can he be the greatest player of all time regardless of position?
2006-08-01 09:50:29 · answer #4 · answered by Mr J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ted Williams. He had the best eye in the history of baseball. He had 20-10 vision.
2006-08-01 04:56:05 · answer #5 · answered by lieb11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babe Ruth - name another person with 700+ home runs AND a 20+ Win season for pitching. Not to mention putting up the greatest stats ever in a year - 1921: .378 avg, 59 HR, 177 R, 171 RBI
2006-08-01 05:27:59 · answer #6 · answered by badgerlicious03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teddy Ballgame aka...Ted WIlliams. The guy was an absoulte baller. He would have put up much better numbers if he didn't leave baseball to serve his country and fly planes during world war II. The guy was the best hitter ever to play the game.
2006-08-01 06:39:10 · answer #7 · answered by endosmoka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All around? Willie Mays. He could hit with the best of them, he was a great fielder and he had speed on the bases.
Ruth was amazing at the plate and a pretty good pitcher to boot, but he was not the greates fielder in the world and on base was average.
Williams another great hitter that was an average fielder.
Mays had everything.
2006-08-01 08:02:12 · answer #8 · answered by strangedaze23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ted Williams
2006-08-01 04:54:43 · answer #9 · answered by oracleguru 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sick and tired of people always picking Babe Ruth (He was a fart lard turd that did great because back in that day, he was like the only big guy in the game) .... You want best ever look at either Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Ken Griffey Jr. (Pre-Reds) or Barry Bonds (pre-roids)
2006-08-01 06:01:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋