Quick Poll: Your Top 3 Greatest Baseball Players Ever

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1

Use any criteria you like, just keep it to 3. Explain if you think it’s necessary.

Mine:

Babe Ruth
Ted Williams
Lou Gehrig

2
  1. Ted Williams
  2. Babe Ruth
  3. Joe Dimagio
3

Willie Mays
Babe Ruth
Virtual dead heat between those two
Too many tied for third.

4

Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, and Barry Bonds.

Yeah, I know.

5
  1. Babe
  2. Splinter
  3. Ty

I discount Bonds for the 'roids, or else he’s #3

6

Ruth,No explanation needed
Ryan,7 no-hitters,12 one-hitters,18 two-hitters.(Plus the Beat-Down he threw on Robin Venturas ass is legendary)
Rose or Cobb tuff choice(or mebbe Joe Shlabotnik)

7
  1. Willie Mays
  2. Babe Ruth
  3. Albert Pujols
8

Dick Tidrow, Al Hrabosky, and Manny Sanguillen.
Actually, I’d just like to throw Hank into the discussion. George Herman is universally accepted as the best, and after him, there’s many for whom a case can be argued - here’s a good list.

9

I HATE Barry Fucking Bonds…

But yeah. You pretty much nailed it. I tried hard to come up with a pitcher I could justify putting on instead of Bonds, but I couldn’t.

10

I think pitchers are in their own category, they only play every 4-5 days and they don’t hit.

I would say Bonds(and the other cheats) are right out. His offensive stats are inflated particularly towards the end of his career and he might not have played as many years due to age and the usual drop off in performance.

He was a lock for the HOF regardless.

11

Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Roberto Clemente.

Nuff said.

12

Ruth, Cobb, Bonds.

13

Jackie Robinson
Bill “Spaceman” Lee
Pete Rose

14

Cy Young, Babe, Ted Williams

15
  1. Babe Ruth
  2. Babe Ruth
  3. Babe Ruth
16

Cobb
Dimaggio
Mays

When I was a kid, my dad and I were at a Cubs game when this very old man asked my dad if he’d carry a baseball to where Willie Mays was signing things. My dad did, and didn’t even look at the ball, but Willie did before he signed it. Asked my dad whose it was, and had dad bring the man down. Willie thanked the man for the honor of asking him to sign it, did so and gave it back.

There were maybe a half dozen other names on the ball. I remember DiMaggio, Mantle, Ted Williams, and Sandy Koufax off the top of my head. The old man said something about keeping it special, and he was going to leave it for his grandson someday. I often wonder what happened to that ball.

17

Ruth
Williams
Bonds

18

Great story! I remember reading that Joe DiMaggio visited the White House during one of Reagan’s and Gorbachev’s summit meetings, and had both autograph a baseball. Now that would be a collectible.

19

Cy Young had 511 wins. Next is Walter Johnson with 417. The next are down to 373. It is baseballs unbreakable record.

20

Mays, Williams, Ruth.