Who is the greatest ***** League Ballplayer of All-Time?

Question

So I'm sitting back today thinking about how Satchel Paige pitched as a rookie in his 40's, how Josh Gibson supposedly hit over 800 homeruns, and how Jackie Robinson wasn't even nearly the best...

So who was?

Answer 1

Satchel Paige was the most dominate pitcher in baseball period. Be it in the majors or ***** league. It's just too bad the majors took forever to see it. Satchel is #1 hands down.

Josh Gibson did hit a ton of homeruns and the estimated 800 he hit was no farce. You can look him up in the hall of fame and see the inscription on his plaque.

Answer 2

Satchel Paige is the best ***** League baseball player of all time. The man was a warrior and it was an injustice that he was never able to match up against the greats in the Major Leagues. If you ever read the stories on how he played the game, it boggles the mind. It makes today's players look like wusses. How many pitchers you know could barnstorm like he did where he could pitch a game and travel somewhere and pitch another one the same evening?

Jackie Robinson may not have been the best player in the ***** Leagues, but he was the best player to blaze the trail to integrate the game. Who could you think of better to withstand the daily pressures of being the first and having to deal with people calling you all sorts of vile and racist blasts?

Answer 3

Satchel Paige

Answer 4

Gibson and Paige are probably the top 2. One was a pitcher and one a hitter, so you can argue both ways.

With all due respect to Yankee Dude. Gibson died at the age of 35, not 32. Still, he played 17 seasons in the ***** Leagues. He is also credited for hitting 84 home runs in 1936, granted they were hit against varied levels of competition. Not all those came in "official" ***** league games. Counting all those extra games is how his home run total is close to 900.

The player I would have most liked to see play was James "Cool Papa" Bell. From what I understand, he could hit, he could field, and boy could he run!

Answer 5

Satch and Josh -- Can't really pick one over the other as they played different parts. But a 47ish yr old winning the Rookie of the Year award may put Satch up on top. Was he so much better that even when he was that old he was better than any other rookie in the majors that year??

Answer 6

Josh Gibson. Anybody who hits the longest home run in the history of Yankee Stadium that goes completely out of the ballpark is doing something!

Answer 7

Josh Gibson.

Answer 8

Stachel Paige once struck out Josh Gibson with the bases loaded on 3 pitches.

Stachel also showed several big leaguers how to throw certain pitches.

Answer 9

If you do your research you will find that Josh Gibson played a total of 501 games in his career. He hit a total of 147 career home runs and never hit more than 17 in a single season. He was considered a below average catcher and was very unreliable because of his drug and drinking problems. He died at age 32. I always have to laugh when I see the legendary numbers come up. From my own research I have found that Gibson was a very powerful hitter but never came close to reaching his potential.

Answer 10

Satchel Paige, that guy was great when he finally got in the MLB as an old man. He would have been awesome in his prime.