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Who is the GREATEST baseball player ever?

Who is the best OVERALL baseball player ever?

  • Babe Ruth

    Votes: 32 59.3%
  • "Shoeless" Joe Jackson

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Pete Rose

    Votes: 7 13.0%
  • Ted Williams

    Votes: 2 3.7%
  • Other-----Please explain your selection

    Votes: 12 22.2%

  • Total voters
    54
I voted "other" because I did a deep dive a while back on old ball parks and comparing dimensions through the years.
then compared some ballplayers in their home parks vs other parks of their era.

Babe Ruth in some of today's park sizes would have been impossible to calculate without spray charts.
Ted Williams paying in Tiger Stadium of that era instead of Fenway would have been over 600 HR (would have been up around 775 had he not lost time due to Military).

Joe DiMaggio would have over 500 HR if he played in Sportsman's Park of his era instead of Yankee Stadium of that time.

Pete Rose should not even be listed on the poll.
 
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