Who is the best batter of all time.?

Answer 1

Ted Williams- Hit over .400

Answer 2

I agree withn everyone who says Ted Williams. You take the 5 years he missed due to war, he was in his prime, he could have hit between 35 and 40 hrs a season. Remember, the guy had alot of pop. He always said if anything, he wanted to be the best hitter of all time. I remember a long time ago, a reporter asked him how he would fare against todays pitchers. He said "Around .265-.270". When the reporter asked why so low? Williams said "Because I'm 70 plus years old!"

Answer 3

I would say Bonds, but there is a shadow over him. He more than likely cheated so gotta toss him out. So it's toss between Stan Musial or Ted Williams. But you can't discount Rose, Cobb or Gwynn or Ichiro, just because they don't drop bombs doesn't mean they're not hitters. A-rod may take it all by the end of his career though. And of course the best swing I've ever seen came from Griffey JR.

Answer 4

Ted Williams has to be the best when you consider he was the last player to hit 400 over a season. You also have to consider that he left baseball for the army for four years, and came back and picked right up where he left off. Just think if he had those years back and had played baseball.

Answer 5

I think Babe Ruth is the best. He has a lifetime average of .342, and in the times Ruth played, the bats where almost double the weight, fences wayy more back. Like Yankee stadium used to be something like 480 to center and 380 to right field, and era in which he played, home runs just weren't hit and he set the trend on hitting home runs and he was the most feared hitter of the time. Barry bonds and willie mays had the advantage of lighter bats.

Answer 6

Ty Cobb and Ted Williams are certainly two top condenders. Both were said to have eyes unlike any MLB ballplayer before them, Williams hit for ridiculous averages in an era where teams were averaging .280 and .290, and Cobb was racking up a ridiculous number of hits in the dead-ball era (an era where offensive production was at an all-time worst in the majors).

Answer 7

barry bonds.....lol A cheating, lying, steriod using bum? Get real. I hope he is banned from baseball for life and his records stripped for being a cheater. I can't believe he's still allowed in Baseball when Pete is still banned.

Joking Joe, or Big Ted were the best. Followed closely by The Babe, Lou G, and The Mick.

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Answer 8

Toss up between Joe Dimaggio and Ted Williams. Check this out: In 1941 before WWII started, Joe had his 56 game hitting streak and Ted batted something like .411. What sucks is that these two were in their prime then and still gave four years military service! If they had had those four seasons back they would probably own every major hitting record.

Answer 9

Ted Williams is the best hitter of all-time. If this was a question of who was the best power hitter of all-time then it could be different. But stickily from a hitting standpoint, Williams has everyone beat - hands down.

Answer 10

Stan Musuial