Greatest baseball player of all time?

lee smith went to northwestern (demons) and is from here. wgn made a lot of people baseball fans. as did tbs. thats all we watched during summers when we werent playing ball.

 

Not baseball but Aaron Rodgers crushed it on Celebrity Jeopardy. He even dropped an F Bomb when he got one wrong.

 

They say that Ted Williams was the greatest hitter ever but that was before my time and I never saw him play.

In addition to winning over 300 games and striking out way over 5000 hitters, Nolan Ryan lost over 200 games. Many of those losses were by scores of 1-0 or 2-1 after Ryan had great perfomances but got no run support from his teammates.

 

Babe would have been a great player in this era too but how great? He would have had to take better care of his body to compete with today's players.

 

did i miss something?????where you been gdf???

 

One of the reasons it's so hard to compare. You can't just transport yesterday's player to the present. They had such different upbringing, nutrition, training& lifestyle that wouldn't compare. No one could get away with what Babe or the Mick did today.
One other rarely discussed factors is what impact amphetamines had when they were used. That was the first real PEDs and were in pretty general use for years. Who benefited from them is never discussed but I would bet there are several in the Hall of Fame who used them.

 

josh hamilton could only do it a couple years but he tried.

 

well thats the low hanging fruit. we like to talk about people we saw play. and by we, i mean me.