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Sunday, August 29, 2010

top 5 baseball players of all time

I'm sure you've all pondered this question before, who are the all time top 10 greats. Here's my list.
Willie Mays New York/ San Fran Cisco Giants 1951-1972 New York Mets 1972-1973. 302 batting average over 1000 RBI 660 home runs and over 3000 hits. Willie was not only  great with a bat, he was great with a glove winning 12 golden gloves and being selected to 24 all star teams

Babe Ruth one of the alltime greats people sometimes forget he was a pitcher, a very good pitcher at that, his era was a small 2.28 with a win loss record of 94-46. But Ruth was known more for his hitting with 714 homers 3rd on the all time list. Babe had an amazing career 690 slugging percentage which is the all time best record and a 1.164 ops which is also atop the all time list. Babe was also elected to the MLB century team and ranks in the top ten in several other catagories.

Cy Young any guy with over 500 wins deserves a spot on this list. Cy started 815 games in his 21 seasons with the Cleveland Spiders the St. Louis Perfectos the Boston Red Sox the Cleveland Naps and the Boston Rustlers he completed 749 games! That's just absurd nobody in there right mind would even dream of that in this day and age. His ERA was amazing too 2.63. And to top it of Cy was elected to the 20th century MLB team

Ty Cobb Cobb is plain and simple the greatest hitter and base runner of all time. He has the numbers to back it up. Cobb batted over .400two times in his career, 420 in 1911 and 409 in 1912  times in his career! Ted Williams had  batted .406 in 1941 but it came down to the 2nd to last game of the season. He almost did it again in 1957. Ty had a unbelievable career average .366 the best ever by 8 points over Roger Hornsby's .358 career average. Cobb was also a magnificent base stealer swipping 892 stolen bases good enough to be 4th on the alltime list

1 comment:

  1. Mickey - My friend SP read your blog and wants to know why you left off one of the all time greats, Ted Williams??? MEP

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