Who are the 5 greatest baseball players of all time?

Question

1. Babe Ruth
2. Barry Bonds
3. Cal Ripken, Jr.
4. Ty Cobb
5. Hank Aaron

Answer 1

1 Babe Ruth
2 Hank Aaron
3 Nolan Ryan
4 Barry Bonds
5 Ty Cobb

Answer 2

Yours
1. Babe Ruth - obviously
2. Barry Bonds - Could have been the greatest - can't have him, cheater
3. Cal Ripken, Jr. - Iron man was most consistent, not greatest
4. Ty Cobb - I don't disagree, but I don't agree - he's too old
5. Hank Aaron - hard to deny him

Mine - since I don't disagree with Ty and Hank I'll bump them up
1. Babe
2. Ted Williams - somebody was right, greatest hitter ever (besides cheater Bonds, side-show act Babe Ruth)
3. Jackie Robinson - broke the color barrier and brought 5 tools
4. Willie Mays - Bonds without juice
5. Hank Aaron - that's a lot of homers

I would like a pitcher actually, but I will get yelled at for Nolan Ryan. Who is your number one pitcher?

Answer 3

I'd say

Hitters
1)Willie Mays (Best All-Around Player Ever)
2) Babe Ruth (Best Power Hitter Ever)
3) Ty Cobb (Best Contact Hitter Ever)
4) Ted Williams (Best Power/Contact Hitter Ever)
5) Cal Ripken Jr (Mr Iron Man)

Pitchers
1) Bob Gibson
2) Nolan Ryan
3) Satchell Paige
4) Roger Clemens
5) Cy Young

in no certain order

Answer 4

Barry Bonds
Ty Cobb
Nolan Ryan
Willie Mays
Hank Aaron

Answer 5

Babe Ruth , Willie Mays , Cy Young, Pete Rose,Barry Bonds with kudos to Satchel Page, Roger Clemens, Hank Aaron, Joe D, Mantle, and the 'splendid splinter' Williams

Answer 6

1. Babe Ruth (great pitcher and hitter)
2. Willie Mays (played O and D)
3. Ty Cobb (the best hitter of all time)
4. Hank Aaron (should protest Bonds breaking the record)
5.Lou Gherigh (best player no one talks about)

Answer 7

Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Joe DiMaggio
Mickey Mantle
Willie Mays

Answer 8

1. Hank Aaron
2. Ty Cobb
3. Willie Mays
4. The Babe
5. Lou Gehrig
6. Honus Wagner
7. Cy Young
8. Joe Dimaggio
9. Stan Musial
10. Ted Williams

Answer 9

Bonds???

Realize people, Bonds was good, but he wasn't break-Hank-Aaron's-record good before he went and sold his soul.

Even if he were to have kept clean, he was not even close to being better than top 20 OF'ers.

Anyhow, you cannot break it down to Top 5 because someone else's Top 5 with the remainder would still be pretty formidable.

Imagine:

Ruth, Williams, Mays, Mantle, Cobb

vs.

Clemente, Aaron, Dimaggio, Wagner, Gehrig

vs.

Big Papi

Answer 10

Good question.

Ruth is a natural for what he did when no one else was hitting home runs.
I'd also include Cobb and Aaron from your list for obvious reasons.
But Bonds and Cal come up short in my book.
Willie Mays hit 660 HRs without Roids and whatever else has made Barry's head grow. He needs to be on the list.
And I would include Joe Dimaggio as well.

Of course, there are no pitchers on our lists. But Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, Bob Gibson and Roger Clemens should get consideration.