List your Top 5 Baseball Players of All Time

Wabittwax

I honestly don't know too much about the old guys so let's here everyone else's opinion.

onlyanumber

You should have made it top 10 as I think three or four of everyone's top five will be the same...

Mine, in no particular order:

Babe Ruth
Cy Young
Hank Aaron
Stan Musial
Ty Cobb

bri2327

I will only include position players for the purpose of this thread....in no particular order,

Ruth
Mays
Musial
Aaron
Mantle

ctsoxfan

Ted Williams
Babe Ruth
Stan Musial
Willie Mays
Hank Aaron

joestalin

wow 3 lists, Musial on all of them and Williams only on one?? How can the greatest hitter of all time not be on a top 5 list? Do any of
us actually think that Ted Williams wouldn't have more home runs than Ruth or even perhaps Aaron if he plays all those years
he loses to the war?

Even in today's game of cheaters, juiced balls, and small parks, no one can begin to do what Teddy Ballgame did. Maybe we need
some more Yankee's in the top 5..Rizzuto maybe?

Disguested,
JS

dallasactuary

Ruth
Cobb
Williams
Wagner
Mantle

Mays
Gehrig
Aaron
Musial
Foxx

I put Mantle at 5, but I think the gap from Mantle down to Aaron is razor-thin, and I don't disagree with the people who have put Aaron and/or Mays in their top-5. I would encourage people to take a deeper look at Honus Wagner though - a truly phenomenal player.

stevek

1. Babe Ruth
2. Ty Cobb
3. Willie Mays
4. Ted Williams
5. Eddie Gaedel

Connecticoin

<< <i>Ted Williams
Babe Ruth
Stan Musial
Willie Mays
Hank Aaron >>



I agree with this list.

Maybe we should have a separate list for pitchers -- Here's my WAGs:

Cy Young
Walter Johnson
Warren Spahn
Bob Gibson
Roger Clemens

Writer11

Hey Steve K,

This isn't the top 5 major league midgets of all-time list

I am going to say:

Ruth
Mays
Aaron
Cobb
Williams

Brian48

This 5 all time favorites, right?

Roger Maris
Dwight Evans
Roger Clemens
Fred Lynn
Steve Carlton

Brian48

Actually, there's one other player I need to add on. The trio of Dwight Evans, Fred Lynn, and Jim Rice would all be about equal to my personal list. I really couldn't list one without the others.

pandrews

#1. Bill Brasky

MantleMarisFordBerra

1-Ruth
2-Mays
3-Williams
4-Cobb
5-Wagner

Hard to do, wish I could've included Gehrig & Aaron

If we're going to do another list for pitchers (which makes sense to me)

1-Johnson
2-Matty
3-Young
4-Koufax
5-Ford....for real, check out his winning %, remember Casey did not use him in regular rotation, he saved him for "big games against big pitchers", his first year in regular rotation he went 25 & 4.

WinPitcher

Derek Jeter
Thurman Munson
Bernie Williams
Ron Guidry
Don Mattingly




Steve D

alnavman

Eddie Leon

jaxxr

Best Player ever; Mays, Cobb, Williams, and Ruth = four way tie.

Best Pitcher ever; Walter Johnson and Lefty Grove = tie.

Any combo of the aforementioned six men would make a fine and accurate Top five list if it can't go to six.

stevek

<< <i>Hey Steve K,

This isn't the top 5 major league midgets of all-time list

I am going to say:

Ruth
Mays
Aaron
Cobb
Williams >>



Gaedel had a perfect lifetime on base percantage of 1.00 - How can he not be on the list?

In my opinion though the top 4 are easy...that #5 top player to me is very, VERY tough with any of about eight players could be #5. Hard to argue with names like Musial, Foxx, Gehrig, Wagner and some others. I do disagree with Aaron in the top 5. I think Aaron is more of a top 5 through top 10 player and actually he wouldn't make my top 10 list.

DirtyHarry

I have to pick the "old guys" in the top 5, simply because it is hard to compare eras....but these guys were so dominant versus their peer group that their accomplishments were ungodly.

Ruth, Cobb, Wagner, Johnson, Young.

My next five would be:

Gerhig, Williams, Mays, Aaron and Musial.

aro13

Mine is basically the same as dallasactuary except I will put in Mays instead of Mantle.
Ruth
Wagner
Mays
Cobb
Williams

dontippet

I find it amazing how baseball has held on to its very long history and tradition. There have been very few current names mentioned so far. If this was done for football or basketball, there would be many current names. I realize both those sports don't have as long of a history. If you were to list the greatest Olympians of all time, other than Jesse Owens, most names would be within the last 40 years. It is amazing to me that the names of Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, etc... are as popular today as ever. I think it is wonderful to have such a storied past.

MantleMarisFordBerra

Interesting points Don, but really, who would we put in? Bonds? Well, he had a shot before we all found out about the steroids. McGwuire? HA! Same thing. The only current player I feel who even has a shot at making the list would be Clemens, and that's only if you split the lists into 5 hitters-5 pitchers. I will say if Albert Pujols keeps it up, 15 years from now there will be a REALLY strong case for hm.

phreakydancin

Ruth
Cobb
Wagner
Williams
Aaron

Pitchers:
Johnson
Clemens
Young
Spahn
Koufax

RipublicaninMass

<< <i>Actually, there's one other player I need to add on. The trio of Dwight Evans, Fred Lynn, and Jim Rice would all be about equal to my personal list. I really couldn't list one without the others. >>



I liked Wade Boggs too

Boopotts

<< <i>Derek Jeter
Thurman Munson
Bernie Williams
Ron Guidry
Don Mattingly




Steve D >>



My thoughts exactly. If a player gets stuck wearing the Yankee pinstrips he's more or less doomed to obscurity.

GlynRParson

Barry Bonds
Babe Ruth
Willie Mays
Ty Cobb
Hank Aaron

Top 5 Pitchers
Roger Clemens
Walter Johnson
Christy Matthewson
Lefty Grove
Steve Carlton

fsjeter

<< <i>

<< <i>Hey Steve K,

This isn't the top 5 major league midgets of all-time list

I am going to say:

Ruth
Mays
Aaron
Cobb
Williams >>



Gaedel had a perfect lifetime on base percantage of 1.00 - How can he not be on the list?

In my opinion though the top 4 are easy...that #5 top player to me is very, VERY tough with any of about eight players could be #5. Hard to argue with names like Musial, Foxx, Gehrig, Wagner and some others. I do disagree with Aaron in the top 5. I think Aaron is more of a top 5 through top 10 player and actually he wouldn't make my top 10 list. >>




"As far as I'm concerned, (Hank) Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last 15 years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due." - Mickey Mantle

Be hard not to include him IMO. He has more Home Runs and RBI's than any other player in the history of the game. If you took away all 755 home runs, he would still be a member of the 3,000 hit club. Only one other person, Eddie Murray, can claim 500 homers and 3,000 hits but he would fall short of the latter if you took away the home runs. The closest would Musial with 475 homers and 3,603 hits.

I would go with:

1. Ruth
2. Mays
3. Aaron
4. Musial
5. Cobb/Williams

Scott

perkdog

Mays
Gehrig
Ted Williams
Bonds
Dimmagio/Mantle

fiveniner

My favorite players of all time (not nescesarily the best).

1.Mickey Mantle
2.Roger Maris
3.Al Kaline
4.Jackie Jensen
5.Gil Hodges.