The Best There Ever Was

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The Best There Ever Was

...Would indicate the poster is looking for one player who transcends the game spanning all generations ever played. Babe Ruth fits this best.

Now you wanna break it down over eras, skill sets or whatever, the list gets much larger.

If you are talking best hitter or best pitcher, there can be argument. If you are asking "best there ever was" than any answer other than Babe Ruth is a joke.

Do you guys realize just how good Babe Ruth was at pitching?

• 18-8 in 1915
  
• 23-12 in 1916 with league leading 1.75 ERA and 9 shutouts and 0 HR given up
  
• 1-0 in 1916 World Series, pitching 14 innings with .64 ERA
  
• 24-13 in 1917 with league leading 35 complete games
  
• 13-7 in 1918 (and led league with 11 HR)
  
• 2-0 in 1918 World Series, pitching 17 innings with 1.06 ERA
  
• 9-5 in 1919 (and led league with 29 HR)
  
• Pitched 323 innings in 1916 and 326 innings in 1917.
  
• After 9 years without pitching at all (11 years since he pitched regularly) pitched a complete game victory in 1930
  
• After 3 more years without pitching at all (14 years since he pitched regularly) pitched a complete game victory in 1933
  
• 94-46 lifetime record with 2.28 ERA
  

Best ever? The only question regarding 'best ever' would be who is number 2?

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The Best There Ever Was...



And The Lone Ranger wasn't too shabby either!

Run Tonto run,
The wicked witch will get you?

Oh that was Toto!!

Never mind.

EH

The Lone Ranger was good but he wasn't the best??

It would be Hard to beat Gary Cooper in "High Noon".

Although John Wayne in "The Searcher's" Was right up there.

EH

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I agree High Noon with Gary Cooper is tough to beat and still conveys a very timely theme in my opinion.

And Tex Ritter did a good job with the opening song.

Most beloved player by the hometown fans of all-time?

Got to be Stan "the Man" Musial !

46 years since he played, and he is the most revered and respected man in St Louis.
Poor Pujols!
He has a chance to be only the #2 greatest Cardinal!

Best quote on how to be a great hitter?
Also Musial!

"You wait for a strike, then you knock the **** out of it."

That Tex Ritter was awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...IoSE&feature=related

EH

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That Tex Ritter was awesome as well EH.

Thanks!

I've not seen this film...I'll be renting it soon.

Roy Hobbs for me. His bomb that broke the clock was a thing of legend.

It is truly amazing how certain threads morph into something else

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Little Johny.

Nobody else is even a close second.


Seriously though, The Babe. But I wonder how different this discussion might have been had the Mick played on two good knees...

Babe Ruth. But my all - time favorite is Harmon Killibrew. I loved going to the ballpark, singing the "We're gonna win Twins" song and watching Killibrew play at the Met!

The Best there ever was has to be a five tool player---I do not think Ruth was--Killebrew certainly was NOT!!!

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The Best there ever was has to be a five tool player...

Why is that?

I would agree about Babe Ruth if it weren't for the image of William Bendix and John Goodman playing him in the movies, The Babe Ruth Story. Every time I here his name I remember William Bendix playing him when I was young.

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Originally posted by justbaseball:

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The Best there ever was has to be a five tool player...

Why is that?

It's so TRhit can justify his position that Willie Mays was the best ever.

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t's so TRhit can justify his position that Willie Mays was the best ever.

Yeah, I know. And no doubt, Willie Mays is in the room...maybe at the front if the criteria is a 5-tool player.

But I think the Big-2 are...

Babe Ruth changed the game in many ways, most importantly raising its popularity immensely.

Jackie Robinson changed the game in ways almost no one else could have.

You guys all crack me up---I do not have to justify anything---the question the best there ever was and I gave my choice-- I saw Mays from the year he broke in until he retired and he is the best I have ever seen live or on film

You don't have to agree with me--that is your choice

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You guys all crack me up...

Alright! We're on the right track then. Happiness abounds in the NE!

Let me tell just happiness has always been with me --my entire life thru the good and bad times

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Let me tell just happiness has always been with me...

Well then, we share something!