13 Greatest Hitters in Baseball History
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- From a man who used hot dogs and beer to enhance his performance to a few guys who juiced up to help them achieve their lofty stats here’s the 13 Greatest Hitters in Baseball History.
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5. Stan Musial
Today the St. Louis Cardinals are a powerhouse franchise in Major League Baseball that is a contender to win the championship nearly every year. A big reason why is Stan “The Man” Musial. He came up as a pitcher before his manager, Dickie Kerr suggested he turn to hitting. In his first year as the Cardinal’s every day left fielder in 1942 he would hit .315, an excellent mark but for Musial it was only the beginning. Over the next 11 seasons he would only bat under .320 one more time. In his career he would win 3 MVP awards and be a model of consistency. He recorded 3,630 hits 1,815 at home and 1,815 on the road.
Career Stats: BA .331 Hits 3630 Home Runs 475 RBI 1951 BB 1599 SO 696 SLG .559
4. Lou Gehrig
His farewell speech after being diagnosed with ALS on July 4, 1939 is one of the most famous speeches in history. Everyone remembers his line, “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Tragically the Iron Horse would pass away less than two years later from the malady. His stellar seventeen year career prior to the diagnosis made him a legend. He along with Babe Ruth assembled the meat of Murder’s Row, the nickname given to the Yankees incredibly potent offenses of the late 20’s. Despite playing alongside the Babe Gehrig managed to rack up three seasons where he was tops in the league in home runs. He also won two MVP awards. He hit over 170 RBI’s a ridiculous three times, including 185 in 1931.
Career Stats: BA .340 Hits 2721 Home Runs 493 RBI 1995 BB 1508 SO 790 SLG .632
3. Hank Aaron
While Barry Bonds had a sudden surge of artificial power late in his career to capture the home run record, Hank Aaron’s path to the all time home run crown was steady and consistent. His highest single season home run total was 47 followed by 44, a total he would land on in 4 seasons scattered throughout his 23 year career. While he lost the home run title to Barry Bonds he still holds the record for most extra base hits and total bases. Big Papi and Aaron met up in late 2016 after Ortiz won an award bearing Aaron’s name. Ortiz was a great hitter in his own right, though not nearly good enough to crack this list.
Career Stats: BA .305 Hits 3771 Home Runs 755 RBI 2297 BB 1402 SO 1383 SLG .555
2. Ted Williams
Williams wanted to walk down the street and have people say of him, “There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.” The quote shows the confidence, sometimes bordering on arrogance of Ted Williams. It’s also a statement that many argue to be true. His smooth, left handed swing is along with Ken Griffey Jr.’s one of the best looking to ever be seen. Raised in San Diego, Williams joined the Red Sox in 1939 and immediately became one of the game’s premier players. In 1941 he posted a .406 batting average, making him the last hitter to hit over .400 in a season. His surly often unapproachable demeanor with the media likely cost him accolades as he only won one MVP, though looking back it could be argued that he should have won at least two more. Perhaps no hitter in baseball history has combined average and power with more success than the Splendid Splinter. Even Ty Cobb thought that Williams would break his all time batting average mark of .363. Many say he would have had he pulled the ball more against the defensive shifts put in place exclusively for his sake.
Career Stats: BA .344 Hits 2654 Home Runs 521 RBI 1839 BB 2021 SO 709 SLG .634
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1. Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was a gargantuan figure in the 1920’s and changed the way the game of baseball was played for all time. His Major League career spanned 22 years and started on the mound with the Boston Red Sox. He was a great pitcher and won 67 percent of his games during the last half of the 1910’s. He was traded to the Yankees in 1920 and would begin a string of dominance as a hitter that would last over a decade. He popularized the home run and hit deep flies the likes of which had never been seen before. His stats speak for themselves but what’s hard to grasp was the effect his larger than life personality had not only on Major League Baseball but on the entire United States. He became a superstar known as much for his fun loving nature off the field as he was for his remarkable performances on it. He boozed and ate foods like hot dogs and burgers in excess, though it didn’t seem to affect his play until later in his career. Sent to an orphanage as a child, Ruth had an affinity for children, especially orphans.
Tris Speaker is missing. Over 3500 hits and a .345 lifetime average. I'll play the video again because he just _has_ to be there.
Tris is a top 3 for sure. Still has records in the books today.
Shoeless Joe Jackson, even Babe Ruth said he was the greatest. If he could have finished his career he would have been the greatest.
Another good bet
Can't argue with you there Tim. He was, I always thought, kind of underrated and over looked. I know Americans seem obsessed with top ten lists and ranking things. You can't really do it for the arts but we still do. With stats like in sports I suppose it can be to some extent but in my mind once you reach that level of talent every individual becomes a unique phenomena that is his own gift to society and then it becomes a popularity thing. There are certain things that some individuals are just one of a kind at. Tris Speaker, at his best, you can argue was the best all-around ballplayer period...but...there can and will always be arguments LOL. When I was maybe 12 or so and read a short bio about the guy I became an instant fan.
No matter who's on the greatest hitter list, you'll never get it right because it's impossible to create the perfect list of all time great hitters. We all know who they are, but to put them in order, good luck with that.⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾👍
Imagine the numbers Ted Williams would have finished with if he didn't spend FIVE of his peak years serving as a fighter pilot in two wars (John Glenn claimed he was the best pilot he'd ever seen - oh and he was also inducted into the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame) - if they were AVERAGE years for him he'd be near the tops in HR's and RBI's - but if say only 2 or 3 of those seasons were his very best he'd have gotten close to Babe Ruth's power numbers and added another dozen or so points to his average! I certainly he consider him the best hitter in MLB history as far as pure hitting goes. - It's pretty amazing Boston had him and Yaz covering that green monster from 1939 through 1983 - two guys in FORTY-FOUR seasons!
karl
all true, the Babe deserves to be on this list (leave off the steroid users) but Williams was the best!
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No disrespect to Ted, but how about if Babe hadn't spent five years as a pitcher?
Good
Ted was Fantastic would have had close to 700 HR's A HOME RUN IN HIS LAST AT BAT...!!!!!!!!
As a Cardinals fan, it warms my heart to see Stan Musial getting his due respect. He was a true gentleman on and off the field......but where is Tony Gwynn????
Same here, Musial almost always seems to fall between the cracks when a best of list comes up. I also agree with you on Gwynn, and how about leaving Joltin' Joe off the list?
@@richardeast3328 DiMaggio? Heck yeah!
@@SteveLeicht1 poor lifetime stats
Stan the Man has to be near the top.
@@stevenmccart2894 My baseball hero, when growing up in St Louis in the 50's. He was the best player in baseball at the time, in my eyes. Only Mays, who came along a little later, Aaron, and Mantle were in his league at the time. Eddie Mathews was a great player, too, but unfortunately he doesn't often even get a mention.
Tony Gwynn- 19 consecutive .300 batting average seasons, 8 batting titles, 15x all star ,3,000 hits, 434 total career strike outs, .338 avg,.....and even more records . NO ROIDS
Exactly, no mention of Gwynn but ARod and Bonds are on this list. Lame.
I think same ARod and Bonds should not be in this list Bonds and ARob are more power hitters . So Tony Gwynn should be in this list instead of this two.
Met Tony Gwynn as a kid, in Cincinnati, when I was an autograph hound. He signed every card I had including A Fleer and Topps Rookie and the Topps "Leaders" card. Also met Benito Santiago and he signed it too. The cards got stolen and it still hurts my soul.
Anyway, Tony and Pete Rose are my all-time favorites and they should both be top 5, imo.
Same with Ted Williams with a crazy career OPS over 1000
Pete rose could come back to mlb and go 750 for 750 and still would NOT have a better batting average then tony gwynn
Harry Heilmann. At his peak from 1921 to 1927, Heilmann compiled a .380 batting average, .452 on-base percentage, .583 slugging percentage, and averaged 116 RBIs, 41 doubles, 11 triples, and 104 runs scored per season. He hit over .390 4 times and .403 once.
Heilmann was great, though overshadowed by fellow Tiger, Cobb. Some of the all-time greats, including Cobb, thought Joe Jackson was the purest hitter they'd ever seen. Ruth patterned his swing after Jackson's. When Heilmann was at his best, Jackson had been vanquished, never to play in MLB again. Such a horrific consequence to a man with a baseball talent for the ages. Poor Joe, he never lost his love for the game, playing/connected to semi-pro ball for 20 years after his ouster from the majors. He grew up in poverty and died in ignominy...from a heart attack at 64, the first of the eight Chicago players implicated and expelled after the "Black" Sox scandal...I think Rose is a pretty unsavory fellow, but both he and Jackson have paid enough-put 'em in the Hall. One the other hand, I don't think Rose warrants being on the list here. There's a number I'd put ahead of him, like Heilmann, Jackson and Tris Speaker, maybe Mel Ott and Jimmy Foxx...
@@fenwayify I get what you're saying, but I don't think you could have a list like this without Rose on it. He was phenomenal(and I always hated him because Ty Cobb was always my favorite player(it's complicated, don't ask), and Rose broke several of his records.)
Those other guys were great, no doubt, but Rose was top 5 IMO. I'd say Ty Cobb was the best(.367 lifetime BA is ridiculous), but objectively Ruth had better stats(and a very high lifetime BA as well.)
As someone else said, Tony Gwynn should have been on this list. He is criminally underrated.
What about Tony Gwynn? He was a hitting machine!!!!
RECON ELITE really ⭐️👀. 8 batting titles as well ! Rod Carew too !
Thank you... I'd replace Bonds with Gwynn
Gwynn is top five but bonds is easy top 3 one of if not the best players of all time
@@SuperBosco24 Bonds was one big choker when he played for the Pirates in the postseason...he was also a drug taker so he does not belong on the list.
@@SuperBosco24 I'm not knocking Bonds when I say that. I don't care about the roids either... MOST people forget that during the that era steroids were NOT ILLEGAL at the time. Bonds was a GREAT power hitter, but an all around hitter, gotta go with Gwynn, he was just better. Bottom of the ninth NEED a hit, who you picking? situation
It's interesting That everyone seems to over look Ichiro ! A great all around player. Also played 9 season in Japan. Played 28 years of big league ball.
Ichiro was HARDLY one of the most dangerous hitters of all time. there are scores of hitters that were more dangerous to opposing pitchers than Ichiro. great player, but he doesn't even make my first, second or third all-time teams of starting 9
I hear ya. Being from Washington state, I saw all of Edgar and Ichiro’s careers (on TV mostly). If my life depended on a base hit, and any Mariner hitter could stand in, I’d choose Ichiro over Edgar and the rest. Good day, sir.
I'm from Seattle too. I loved Ichiro. Great all around player. Great fielder, great singles hitter. Good base stealer. But by every single metric, Edgar Martinez was a far better hitter than Ichiro. Batting average, Ichiro .311 Edgar .312. OBP, Ichiro .355, Edgar .418 Sluggling percentage, Ichiro .402, Edgar .515. OPS, Ichiro .757, Edgar .933. , Edgar's averaged 41 doubles per season. Ichiro averaged 22. Edgar hit three times as many home runs as Ichiro. Edgar averaged 8 more runs each season and he drove in twice as many runs as Ichiro. And if you look at their best 5 years, The difference is even greater. If I could choose only one of them, I would choose Edgar every day and twice on Sunday.
@@nikolatesla5553 I’m the first thumbs up for your comment. You make a number of salient points. However, as you first point out, their batting averages nearly identical. It’s a coin toss. I’ll stick with Ichiro for that hit.
@vinmansbakery Wow! I guess facts don't matter. If you said that Ichiro was a more valuable player because he was a ten time Gold Glove outfielder and a far superior base runner, those would be reasonable arguments. But it is silly to suggest that Ichiro was better or even comparable to Edgar at the plate. The only aspect that was similar were their batting averages. The name of the game is runs and Edgar created more by a lot. He scored more often by 10% and he drove in MORE than twice the number of runs. Average total runs yearly created by Ichiro was a highly respectable 132. Edgar's OTOH was a staggering 195!!
No Tony Gwynn! What could your reason be to not have him on the list?
i have an autograph of his on an a2000
Michael, you speak of things you cannot possibly know. I've seen Ruth's swing. Easily the most powerful swing I've ever seen. You are a brainwashed trendy modern airhead. @michael cooper
@Angry Grizzly lol you are angry. Defending a game
@michael cooper looking for others to back you up is a show of weakness. Stop arguing and believe what you want to
@Angry Grizzly he's in my top 3. Maybe #1 and possibly#1. I will say that Tony Gwynn sure as heck ain't worthy to be in this discussion.
Lou Gehrig was an unbelievable athlete and hitter. Total beast and one of the most underrated sports figures ever. Always on the field.
And he was definitely suffering from ALS at the end of his career.
My brother who was a total baseball Stat geek told me there is a little known Stat about Gehrig, he is the only person to hit 4 triples in one game but it was rained out an didn't count, imagine.
@@johnevans8553 might have read that in autobiography about him. Rain outs and darkness were problems early on
Rod Carew, Roberto Clemente , Griffy Jr. too !! I am now 56 and grew up with all 3 of these HOF GREATS !
Not Jr.
Geroge Britt was pretty good too.
Regarding Ted Williams: He was a pilot in both WWII and the Korean War. This patriotism cost him much in stats.
That speaks volumes about the man.
Musial missed a year for ww2 also. it's crazy isn't it imagining today's athletes even doing the same.
Add 5 seasons in his prime to Ted Williams (military service). He would have been close to 5,000 hits. Pete Rose would still be looking for a DH job with an AL team to catch that.
@@r.crompton2286 Pete rose didn't have ted Williams homerun stuff;; it like comparing babe Ruth with ty cobb; plus ted Williams walk alot ; the great Japanese hitter singles hitter used to hit homerun in batting practice; ty cobb did that too. Homerun hitting isn't a special skill
Concerning Lou Gehrig - something a lot of people don't know is that Babe Ruth batted 3rd and Gehrig batted clean-up. In 1927, Ruth hit 60 home runs which means that Gehrig came up to bat an extra 60 TIMES that year with no-one on base because the bases had been cleared by Ruth. Gehrig had 173 RBIs in 1927. Can you imagine?
But also Ruth was pitched around and walked alot giving Lou some extra opportunities
The bats back then were heavier with a thicker handle. They didn't break as much as they do now. They were better balanced.
He had 184 rbi's one year.
1927 NY Yankees Murderers Row. I can believe that. The roaring 20s and the entire personna
Whenever anyone talks about Ted Williams and hitting stats they should be required to say this (as one word all in one breath): NinteenFortyThreeNinteenFourtyFourNinteenFourtyFiveNinteenFiftyTwoNinteenFiftyThree
Out of those 770 games, he played 35 in 1952 and 7 in 1953. The rest of the time he was a Marine aviator. Engaging in an interesting pastime such as close air support in Korea is Not on Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's list of Preferred Occupations...
I am surprised that there was no mention of Ted Williams missing 4 or 5 seasons in his prime due to military service in WWII and the Korean War.. He probably would have passed Ruth in career home runs and also been the all-time leader in RBIs, not to mention his high career batting average. IMO, he was the best of all-time.
He wouldn't have passed Ruth. He would have needed 193 in those five years. He got 521 in 17 season, so that works out to 31 per season. He needed 39. He may very well have finished ahead of Mays at 660, though.
No DiMaggio? You're kidding, right?
Ted Williams made the statement that Joe D. was the greatest all around player but as far as pure hitting (The splinted splender) dominated.
Crazy
Have to agree. Also batters must have been something to see during the dead ball era.
Joe D got Marilyn Monroe,That is enough for him
I'm a lifelong Yankees fan and here are Joe D's stats. He played only 13 Seasons. Batting avg .325. Avg # HR's per season 30. Avg # of hits per season 170. Avg RBI's per season 118. The only numbers that really blow you away are the batting avg and RBI's. I realize that stats don't tell the whole story, but who are you supposed to take off of that list to put DiMaggio on it???? Remember, this was a list of all time greatest hitters, not all around greatest players.
No DiMaggio, you gotta be kidding. Playing in old Yankee Stadium with those dimensions. It was calculated he lost 77 home runs in his career playing there.
But Babe Ruth & Lou Gehring played there too. I don't hear any stories about how many HRs they lost playing there!
kvernon1 Babe and Lou were left-handers who enjoyed the 296 ft. right-field fence. Joe was a right-handed batter who slashed most of his hits toward left-centre field where the alley was about 380 ft. at the fence.
@@kvernon1 Ruth hit more home runs on the road in his career.
His home/road splits don't lie. One of the all time great hitters who would have easily cleared 400 HR's in 13 years.
He wouldve hit 600 easy in the new band box but then again mantle and Gehrig would’ve hit 650 or 700 and ruth would’ve hit 900 to a 1000 in the new stadium
Even though Williams did miss several seasons serving as a pilot in two wars, Ted still, with a world of opportunity to develop baseball rust, STILL earned the highest slugging percentage of anyone except the Babe. His dedication to baseball was the fiercest in baseball history.
Really, Ty Cobb at something like 5 or 6? No, Cobb at two or three I get but any lower makes no sense.
Mel Ott was also intentionally walked with the bases loaded. When the opposing manager was asked why he did it, he said that way he could hold him to only one RBI.
He says Bonds was "routinely" intentionally walked with the bases loaded but I've only ever seen footage of that one time. He was routinely intentionally walked but not with the bases loaded.
I give it to Williams, considering he missed prime years of his career with military service.
Don't forget Ted was a helluva fisherman! I saw him personally in 1956 when Sears opened a new store in New London, CT. Sears sold his endorsed fishing gear. I was only six years old and he seemed like a giant when I stood next to him!
@@martinartale1999 wow, saw ted Williams in person
Forgot shoeless Joe Jackson baseball shoeless Joe was the only rookie two bat over 400 batting average. Since then no rookie is even came close to the prestigious 400##batshit
@MUFC Does MUFC stand for "Mostly useless Fucking Country?
The only problem with putting a limit # on a "Greatest" list is having to omit other greats, for example, where are the names of the immortals Roberto Clemente, Ken Griffey Jr, George Brett, Jimmy Foxx and Tony Gwynn?
"...better list than mine."
I am so glad you listed Stan Musial who was the greatest Cardinal ever. He was The Man for good reason and missed a year for military service and could have also been a 500 homer hitter. . Musial gets overrated by many likely because his career was in a midwest city. Looked like Pujhols was going to surpass Musial as the greatest Cardinal but if he had stayed with St. Louis instead of moving on to the Angels Stan would have still retained stats as the greatest Cardinal due to Albert's rapid decline and Bob Gibson comes in as second best Cardinal but is Cards best pitcher. Not sure about Mantle who could have been greater if not for injuries and Alex Rodriguez making the list but not sure who should make the list instead (Frank Robinson?). Otherwise your list looks good. Cards fan from STL
Pete rose has the most hits in mlb history. Ichiro has the most hits in professional baseball history, Ichiro should be on the list
If ere gonna go hat far why not mention sadahara oh he hit it 868 home runs even thee he was playing in Japan he does hold the record for the most documented career home runs and what about joe Bauman in a 130 game season in the minors big joe of the Roswell rockets hit 72 home runs drove in over 200 runs and batted over 400. No one ever documented ever had a better year in the history of baseball
ichiro was never that dangerous a hitter. scores of hitters that pitchers dreaded more than ichiro
@@RobertMJohnson my opinion has changed over time. Ichiro doesn’t belong on the list
@@adamlamoureux1660 good to see someone who can admit to changing his mind without it being a point of contention. Bravo.
Good list. Huge gap with no Tony Gwynn on here. A case could be made that he is the greatest hitter of the last 40 years.
Amen!
marc Smiley true Tony Gwynn literally could have been the last man to hit .400 but 94’ strike ended i.I mean BA in today’s game isn’t as valuable as it was 10 years ago.
The greatest hitter who ever lived at #2????
No joe D? No Yaz? No Shoeless Joe? But Gay Rod? Where’s Jimmy Foxx? Ty Cobb at 6? Pete Rose at 9?
Hmmmm????
Yaz? R U kidding? His lifetime BA is a mediocre .285. Forget him!
@@34Packardphaeton Agree 100%. Only player below Yaz is Cal Ripken - THE most overrated player of all-time!!
Gay you
@randy K15 Tell him!
.... Yaz?? His lifetime BA was .285... and that's really mediocre. Pete Rose?? An over-rated bum, to be very sure.
George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns never gets the recognition he deserves, possibly because of the teams that he played on weren’t as competitive as the Yankees. Lifetime batting average of .340 and two seasons over .400 makes him one of the greatest hitters of all time.
Ty Cobb is in a league of his own .... Ted Williams and Shoeless Joe were amazing as well
Tony Gwynn , Rod Carew
Rod Carew didn't have much power though. Good, patient hitter ... but not a multi-valent threat.
I just asked that in the thread as well.
Kevin. This doesn't specify the type of hitter. Carew was one of the most difficult outs in baseball but I do understand your comment.
Oh, I agree. Carew was a fantastic hitter - a very tough out, as you point out. But, that having been said, I don't see him cracking into the top 13 hitters of all time.
I certainly don't have a strong enough argument to displace any of the 13 on the list. Perhaps a top 20? lol
ARE YOU KIDDING ME ? ( Lifetime . 338 ) and over his first ten seasons ( 1967-77) He hit . 356 ! + led MLB in Triples 7 of those seasons ( he's 4th all time in Triples ! and 3,028 hits . hit .388 in 77' and was always around . 400 until August, he was my favorite player ! ( I am 55 now and also remember Rod always kick'n ass in the All~Star games ! He is also 2nd all~time in stealing home , 7x ( it's very hard task! )Babe Ruth did it 10 x !! ( he's #1 )..I saw a great era as a kid in MLB and the NFL !! Great time to be young.......*
What about ROD CAREW him not being on a list like this is hard to believe
Troy Theriot no it’s not he does not deserve to be on this list
@@shonchilders990 Then you don't know Baseball
@@troytheriot8679 Let's say we swap out Bonds and Arod for Gwynn and Speaker. Who do you take off the list to put Carew on?
He doesn't belong on this list, but he had an awesome career, especially in the 1970s. I remember the 1977 season when he hit .388 (only to be outdone by George Brett in 1980 at .390). I remember attending an A's game in June or July, and Carew's batting average was displayed on the scoreboard (.391). He had been up over .400 well into the season. I felt like I was watching a player of yesteryear.
@@richatlarge462 What I'm looking at is consistency over a very long period of time and not everybody on the list did what he did
I guess you'll have to replace A-rod and Barry with Toby Gwynn and Shoeless Joe
Michael Laham Shoeless Joe Jackson is my Great Great Uncle
@@christopherhall4182 Christopher, the fact that Joe Jackson was your great uncle must be a great honor to you. And Joe wasa clean living, God fearing man as well as a great ballplayer. Best wishes.
Tony Gwynn
Tony Gwynn
I'm the greatest I just never made it past little-league.
Ahhhh George Brett only man in history with 3 batting titles in 3 different decades!
Big deal!! That can be done in an 11 or 12 year period.
The way the game was meant to be played !! Mr. George Brett !! " NAILS ! " ( I am 55 now and remember all those wars those great KC teams lost to Reggie and The Yanks " and that BRAWL when Nettles kicked HIM IN THE FACE!! ( cheap shot ) George as he was sliding into 3rd base and he came up THROWING !! ..Then the infamous RAGE after they took his HR away !! LOVED IT !! That's how you play BASEBALL, with PASSION !!!
He was a throwback to the old days - all the way back to Cobb and Wagner.@Mike C
@@mikewhitney8615 --So were Pete Rose and Enos Slaughter. I have a baseball with two names on it-----Stan Musial and Enos Slaughter. Who knows what it's worth, although you could not pry it from me with a crowbar.
They call it three decades because no-one in the history of any sport knows how to count. I went to school. Brett won it in 1990. Guess what ? The first number is a one, in any century, and zero is the tenth number of a decade, so, Brett won the title in the LAST year of the 80's decade, not the first year of the 90's. Baseball, football, basketball , you name it, all screwed up, and it will never be fixed. The actual first year of the 90's is 1991.
You don't say 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 and call it a decade. A decade is ten years, alright, but, the first one began 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0. Schooling helps. There is no year zero, and never was.
Everyone around the world got so excited to celebrate the year 2000 as the first year of the new millenium. I still can't believe that millions and millions were that dumb. The year 2000 was the LAST year of the last century. Pick up a book sometime. Raining on parades here.
You forgot Tony Gwynn!
To me Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player of all time...not only a great hitter he was a great pitcher he was 3-0 in the 1916-1918 World Series had pitching duels with Walter big train Johnson and usually defeated in....Bambino👍👍👍👍👍👍
I know someone must have already said this, but hello the Yankee Clipper, cmon, yaw killin me
I'd still rather have Willie Mays on my team than anybody else.
That's because you never saw Ty Cobb.
Willie Mays was awesome, some people(Ted Williams included) discount defense. Willie did it all better than anyone else>
@@paulspears715 Mays came up very small in world series play...great players come up big in big games...had the one great catch but stunk at the plate.
For all round play, you are probably right. Along with being a great hitter, he was one of the greatest fielders, maybe the greatest fielder in the outfielder of all time. Great base runner as well.
Can say he was the best hitter, although among the best. But all round...
Johnny Pastrana Check out Williams' 1946 World Series.
By your criteria Yogi Berra would be the greatest. Berra was great, but nowhere close to this list.
I'd leave out Rodriguez and Bonds; they don't belong on this list--but they do belong on the All-Time Steroid Best Hitters' List. (Maybe put Tris Speaker and A Pujols in their place?) There also should be a separate list of steroid major league records, for curiosity seekers; then the real All-Time list of ML record holders, which would be the official one. Are there any Best Steroid ML Managers' lists?
I don't think steroids should disqualify anyone. Bonds didn't start using until he was 34. That's a lot of time to determine how good he was. And he was good. 327 homers and a slash line of 305/348/600 in the 9 years leading up to his steroid years. Plus 3 MVPs. He would have easily ended up with 500 homers and possibly 600 if he got lucky with his health, had he not juiced.
Albert P, my friends, had the greatest FIRST 10 years all-round hitting career of ANYONE in bb history. Do the math and your homework.Look it up!!
@@BuckyBrown-lt4ry --Eleven years, and some jerks still think that he did the juice. He NEVER did, it was ALL with God-given talent, and he is one of the finest men around.
Some dummies are always jealous of someone with talent, the natural kind.
This video was made before Ichiro's retirement. I wonder if that would change anything if recorded today.
No. He was terrible in his last couple of seasons. Why would 2 additional terrible seasons make him move up on a list?
ichiro was not that big a threat against opposing pitching
@@donwhiteley3293 He might have gobbled up a few more hits, to inch him up in the total hits column.
Bonds with all his juice was not even a career 300 hitter.
hard to watch cheaters be on the list. Think about the guys left off who didn't cheat.
it's hard to argue against Bonds and A-Rod being two of the best to play the game. A lot more players were using/have used than you think.
@@stevenp9209 Which makes the conduct even worse. The best student in the class, who still cheats on the final exam. The lack of necessity compounds the wrongdoing.
Tim Davis hard to have hitters from the dead ball era or pre color barrier also if we are being completely objective.
@@jeffsamuels2539 I believe to the contrary. Dead ball era hitters were at a disadvantage. It was a pitcher's game then. No telling what Joe Jackson could have done with a live ball. A shame he got caught up with the wrong bunch
Guys from the ‘20s-‘70s popped greenies like they were Pez
This is a hard thing to rank because there are so many great hitters, and condensing it to 13 or 10 or even 25 means you leave off so many hitter who could be on that list. There are also so many different hitting stats that could put a player on an "all time great sort of list." However, there is only one greatest hitter of all time and that's Ted Williams. He hit for power and avg he had insane plate discipline. He played in a time where the pitching had caught up. He lost 5 years of his career which potentially could have made him the all time homerun king, his lifetime BA, his 2 triple crowns, his 406 year, and his longevity as a player. Not to mention an overlooked stat, that in his last season as a 42 year old man he hit 316. He was under constant negative pressure from fans and media as well. There will never be another Ted Williams. His book the "Science of Hitting" is the best how to book of all time. Everyone who is serious about baseball as either a fan, a player, or a coach, should read his book about hitting and it will be like a light bulb going on in your head.
Although I love Hank Aaron, I don't think he should be #3 all-time. Also I don't think Arod and Bonds should be included at all
Indiana Johns I don’t think dead ball players should be on the list either. God bless opinions
I would put Mays ahead of Aaron
highest batting average of all time -- TY COBB . the stats dont lie
The size of the gloves did !
And how racist and easy it was to play back then
@@Thefvkingoat ..smaller gloves .. Dead baseballs .. Pitchers had to bat eyc etc .. No steroids .. You mind does not want to expand the thinking .. I bet you think you could hv hit 300 .. Lol
He hit like 30 homers....
@@anthonyrende6886 the pitching was back then is not nearly advanced as it is today, that's why people like Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, and Ty Cobb had so much success.
A- Rod does'nt belong with this group
Nap Lajoie could have made this list
Pretty good list. Hard to argue The Babe at #1. What he did in his era was amazing. I think the top 3 are definitely correct.
Roberto Clemente
Babe Ruth almost suffers from being so good that his exploits don't seem real, they seem legendary. Lou Gehrig's stats are rarely questioned though he played in the same era, for instance.
Bonds is the best hitter ever
NO
Putting Pete Rose on this list is a joke. He never hit more than 16 home runs or 82 RBIs in a season. And he is 791st in slugging percentage. Fox and DiMaggio were 4th and 10th. I can think of a hundred different players that were better hitters than Rose. He only holds the hit record because he had 14,000 at bats. At least you got three out of the top four right.
Pete rose is still a great hitter he got it right or close to right
@@williamsuberalles9558 Anyone who hits over 300 lifetime is a very good hitter. Top 13 though? Not in my opinion.
@@vrscuteri at least top 20
Rose isn't even top 25
No power.Mantle said the way Rose hit he should have worn a dress.
@@randallkennedy2066 just because you don't have power doesn't make you a bad hitter
Shoeless Joe Jackson a must on this list especially over ARod and Barry "Big Head"Bonds
Barry Bonds is the best hitter of all time it's not even close
Ted Williams won 2 MVP awards, not just 1. He won in 1946 and won it again in 1949.
Tony Gwynn deserves a spot on this list
Matt Sims not enough power
hal warner neither did Cobb and Wagner.
Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter of all time
Tony Gwynn is definitely in the discussion. You have your contact hitters, your power hitters, and those rare few who supplied supplied both. We can go on for the rest of our lives trying to decipher who tops a list of the greats. Tony Gwynn struck out 434 times his whole career. Half the players in the league now accomplish that in 3 seasons.
ABSOLUTELY !! as DOES My all~time favorite, the GREAT HOF Rod Carew !! ( from 1967-77 he avg, 356 !! ( look it up) I am 55 now and saw the man play with the Twins and then with Reggie on the Angels ! * Carew is also 2nd all~time in sealing home with 7, I know just 7 x ( it's very hard to steal home !!) * Babe Ruth did it 10 x in his career !! FACT ! ( Unreal too ! )
DiMaggio is severely underrated. Top 10 slugging percentage, top 12 OPS, high average. Lost three years in his late 20's to World War II, just like Williams. And he was champion many times over.
Agreed. I went back and forth over him and Foxx and chose Foxx. (Removed Rose and ARod for Pujols and Foxx) I have Joe D 14th.
Amazingly Joey D had 369 CAREER strikeouts, that's about 28 strikeouts per season or 1 strikeout every 5 or 6 games. Compare that to current Yankees "Sensation" Aaron Judge who seems to strike out multiple times per game. 833 strikeouts (so far) in less than 6 full seasons. In 2017 + 2018 alone, Judge nearly matched Joe's 13 years of total strikeouts.
As a lifelong Yankees fan, I hate to see Judge, Stanton or Gallo at the plate with the game on the line. Steee...riiike three!
Two guys come to mind: Roberto Clemente and Rod Carew.
I agree especially with Roberto. I loved watching him.
I agree especially with Rod Carew. How far back in MLB history do you have to go to find a guy who won 7 batting titles? The Ty Cobb of the modern era. George Brett was a Helluva hitter, too. Enough said.
you can't mention those two without saying Al Kaline.
miss George Brett, I'll give you one. miss Tony Gwynn and I start to question. but miss Ichiro???? really??
--Ichiro hit 200 hits every year for his first ten years. Some guys play 20 years and never get 200 in a year. Williams got 195, somebody wrote. Ichiro's feat is totally impossible, but, he did it. I lived and died with him every game. I still can't believe it, and I have been watching baseball since 1949.
Ichiro should easily be on this list.... 262 hits in a season broke a record most never thought would happen.
Wade Boggs was a better hitter/batsman than Gwynn. On base percentage is a more important statistic than batting average. Boggs career OBP is .415, Gwynn .388. Boggs led the league in OBP in 6 seasons, Gwynn only once. Boggs had and OBP of over .400 in 11 seasons, Gwynn 6 seasons. Boggs had 4 seasons of 200 hits and 100 walks, Gwynn never accomplished that feat. Boggs had 7 consecutive seasons of 200 hits with at least 89 walks, Gwynn drew over 59 walks in a season only one time.
It's time to start leaving the steroid boys off of these lists.
And anyone who played pre 1960. While I appreciate the babes numbers he was seeing the same rubber armed pitchers constantly. He never dealt with a lefty specialist chucking it a hundred who's only job is to get him out. Completely different game back in those days
@@joshlewis575 also no one wants to address the amphetamines that they took, Man they hated Tony Gwynn for busting them out
Roger Maris and Hank Aaron are still the record holders in my book,
@@kadams857I'll address it - So what? amphetamines won't help you hit a ball any harder and they certainly won't help you see a pitch any better (worse if anything). They will help you to ignore pain and fatigue for a short time (see Aaron Pryor) and get up the day after a doubleheader and a night of beer drinking. That's about it.
@@MyXxx77 okay, you do know they play day/ night double-headers and a lot of Saturday night/ Sunday afternoon games in that era, the players admitted that the speed help them to recover and stay alert and they chugged it during and before the games, Mike Schmidt admitted that he drank it because of the grind and playing third he needed to focus I mean I could go deeper but hey
Anything that's unnatural that helps you play a game makes everything you accomplished unnatural - Lou Brock
Where is Tris speaker,Nap Lajoie, and Ed Delahanty all had over 380 batting average and around 2900 hits
Where is Doc Johnson on that list?
For me, steroids simply and forever wrecks the integrity of this and all similar sports lists infected by PED's. Something pure has been permanently lost.
It was already lost with the Pre-1947 Whites Only Era.
So what's left? Just focus on performance on the field
Pujols
@@nathankunkel4761 No it was not. Those players did not cheat and they played against only major league level players instead of minor leaguers that were brought In by integration.
@@williamhendershot5495 They stood by and were complicit in maintaining a whites only MLB.
We give the players a pass, and point the finger at the owners and the commissioner.
Yet in the Selig Era, we point the blame with frothing at the mouth at a small handful of superstars, while the owners and Commissioner (Hall of Famer Bud Selig) get a pass.
The hypocrisy is massive.
@@williamhendershot5495 BTW, the idea that 'only minor leaguers' were brought in is about as ignorant a statement as ever seen on the internet.
You either don't know baseball and it's history, or else you're a silly little white supremacist kind of guy. Which are you?
Enjoy!
Mel Ott was intentionally walked with the bases loaded long before Barry Bonds was even born
That's not the only problem with this video.
A solid list no matter what the order is. Lou Gehrig was my all time favorite. His passing while still in his prime prevented him from being in the top 3. And yes Tony Gwynn and Joe DiMaggio should have been on this list as well. He and Williams had to do military service in their prime.
Thanks for not putting bonds so high people call him the goat when he was so juiced
He wasn't juiced his entire career. He was a great hitter before he juiced. Other worldy after.
@@TK0_23_ I agree but he still isn’t the goat
You have A-Rod, but no Tony Gwynn or Hank Greenberg?
Hand down Babe Ruth was and IS the GREATEST of ALL TIME!
False
@@oscarlinares2235 Ok. Who was better? Oh yes almost won 100 games in 4 seasons as a pitcher. Yes I'm sure Willie or Hank or Ted did that. No offense.
Mike Dunham the thing is can he do that now ? HELL NO. Babe might of been AMAZING for his time but no one was throwing 95 at that time. Now every successful pitcher throws 95+. I honestly think Ted Williams is the best hitter of all time, but Mike Trout is the best player of all time cause no one has the tools that he does, and you can argue that Willie Mays did, but Mike Trout has done more in his first 8 years than Willie did in his first 8.
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson: 3rd all-time at 3.56. If you're going to have Pete Rose, you gotta have "Shoeless" Joe.
Great point
Jeff VanMeter shoeless Joe Jackson is my Great Great Uncle and yes he definitely should be on this list.
I didn't see "Joltin'" Joe Dimaggio on the list..56 game hitting streak and .325 lifetime batting avg. is not "chump change"...
@@r.crompton2286..You can made a case for a lot of players that happened to during the war years..Case in point,Bob Feller who won 265 games during his career but missed 4 seasons(1942-1945)during his prime..So he missed out on easily 80 to 100+ wins and nobody knows how many more no-hitters,one-hitters,and strikeouts..
7:41 Ty Cobb's lifetime batting average was .366, not .363.
I thought .367 Im probably wrong
You didn't include Shoeless Joe Jackson
Forget Joe Jackson. What about Frank Thomas?
Oh, and why not Hank Greenberg, Jimmy Fox, Al Simmons actually many others to be considered, at least.One should really consider the 20 or 25 greatest.Think of Schmidt, Matthews, Killebrew etc.
Why not the top 100. Top 500. You could get all you favorite players that way. It's 13. Why? There is no good reason that I can see. It's a bit screwy. But 13 it is.
I would remove Rose and ARod. I'd add Foxx and Pujols. I did consider Greenburg, Carew, Brett, Schmidt, Griffey, Gwynn, Ichiro, Frank Rob, Sisler, Joe Jackson and more. All great. But not top 13. My runner up, at 14 is DiMaggio.
Tris Speaker, Joe Jackson, George Sisler, Ed Delahanty, Sam Thompson, Bill Terry, Chuck Klein, Zack Wheat
I love this list.
Has anyone considered Manny Ramirez? Amazing right handed hitter. Career numbers: 555 HR, 312 BA. His 21 Grand Slams has him 3rd all time. 11 straight All Star games with 12 over all. 2004 World Series MVP. Number one All Time with 29 post season HR. I know that number over all is less significant compared to fewer play-off games in the early years, however there are players in this list that played in the same era as Manny. Not saying he does or does belong on this list but man was he fun to watch.
Many like big poppy were both rbi machines both deserv to be ahead of mantle
And so should Sammy soda and mark mggwire if bonds is on it
All players who juiced should be stricken from the record books!!!
Or at least have a giant asterisk beside their name
@@gordonmckay4780 - Everyone who loves the game knows the juicers. Their name is the asterisk.
Maybe, but this list is not about the record books. Its about great hitters. Arod off. Bonds stays.
.... it just goes to show that MLB... doesn't have the "balls".
Amen!
a-rod and Bonds do NOT belong on this list
They undoubtedly do
@@bcbphilosophy they needed help and get juiced up their arm so they can hit a home run that is called cheating in my book
@Kenny Weaver barry bonds is undoubtedly the most feared hitter in baseball history. If we want to make a list of greatest hitters who never used PEDs then fine. Babe Ruth famously drank elixirs with monkey testicles blended in because he believed it would enhance his performance.
This list is a joke common man do some research just head shaking
Ken griffey jr deserves more love he holds the record for the youngest player to hit 350 hrs
Albiemate this guy does not watch baseball. Griffey is a top 5 hitter in every real baseball fan’s list.
Hurt too much
.284 isnt top 50, let alone top 5, sorry.
Paul Bledsoe mostly because he played till he couldn’t which dropped his average
Then like mantle he got hurt all the time and fell off the face of the earth
Bonds has no business being on this list. I'm on the fence about A-Rod.
Pete 'Charlie Hustle" Rose is without a doubt one of the greatest to ever play the game. He just got a serious case of the 'stupids". He'll get in, but it won't be till a few years after he dies.
Most of the rest I knew about, but there were two or three I never heard of.
Hank Aaron's record will stand forever.
Ok i knew i had to give this vid a dislike and stop watching it as soon as I heard Alex Rodriguez and then Barry Bonds....ROIDS JUICE HEADS MA PLEASE 👎👎👎👎
Nicholas Giordano Roids don’t affect batting just power
You included two drug-cheating frauds on that list, but omitted Tony Gwynn and Carl Yastremski?
@@malcolml309 wrong....the person who made the video omitted Tony Gwynn and Carl Yastrzemski p.s. but I would have added Tony Gwynn Rickey Henderson George Brett Mike Schmidt and most of all Joe DiMaggio!!!
@@jeremyartavia9058 exactly and can you imagine how many more home runs Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron and Willie Mays would have hit on roids ( just a thought and point )
To be fair he did consistently mention their roid use. Barroids and A-Roid were great hitters in their own rite before the steroid use. It's to bad they are a black eye on the game.
Wade Boggs ,, Tony gywnn rod carew
Interesting is that Carew's and Boggs' lifetime BAs were both at .328. Tony was ten points higher, at 3.38 (which is only six point lower than Ted Williams).
This is a well thought-out list. It's good to see Rogers Hornsby get the recognition he deserves. But please, don't rank juicers among the all-time greats.
There’s one man that’s not only better than all of these players, but not on the list. Roberto Clemente. He was the GOAT, unfortunately, died in a plane crash in his prime at 38! He easily could have played till 45!
Pete Rose at #9? That's a thumbs down.
LOve him or hate him Pete Rose could hit any pitcher any time...
Do you mean in that he should be higher or not even on this list?
He should definantly be higher on the list.
100% agree
Pete made mistakes but he was a great player and a great hitter
To add to to how great he was! His last at bat in his career, was a home run…
Bill Terry was omitted. Had a .341 career BA, and is last RH batter to hit .400 (.401 in 1930)
What about Joe Jackson
Banned.
So that means he is banned from great hitter lists?
Kevin Hennessy Good point. Jackson had a lifetime. 356 BA. I believe that he hit. 400 2 or 3 times, but I'm not positive.
Jackson hit over .400 once (.408 in 1911). He also hit .395 in 1912, and .382 in 1920.
It was his Rookie years... and the first Commishener should have not been picked
Where is Wade Boggs, Tony Gwynn,, Rusty Staub, Roberto Clemente, Ichiro Suzuki, Rod Carew, Hank Greenberg, Mike Schmidt, Frank Robinson and a host of other pure hitters! The fact is it’s almost impossible narrow this list down to the top 13 but it’s fun to try!
Rod Carew . Wade Boggs , Napoleon Lajoie , George Sisler , Jimmy Foxx , Harry Heilmann , Joe Jackson
This list is about homerun hitters...no Gwynn or George Brett
Wade Boggs was a better hitter/batsman than Gwynn. On base percentage is a more important statistic than batting average. Boggs career OBP is .415, Gwynn .388. Boggs led the league in OBP in 6 seasons, Gwynn only once. Boggs had and OBP of over .400 in 11 seasons, Gwynn 6 seasons. Boggs had 4 seasons of 200 hits and 100 walks, Gwynn never accomplished that feat. Boggs had 7 consecutive seasons of 200 hits with at least 89 walks, Gwynn drew over 59 walks in a season only one time.
it never said anytime that this list is about homerun hitters, he even included Ty Cobb who was NOT a homerun hitter
it never said anytime that this list is about homerun hitters, he even included Ty Cobb who was NOT a homerun hitter
This list is about the 13 best overall hitters in baseball history. Power is a part of hitting. There are more than 13 players who combined elite Avg/OBP with elite power. I have a problem with a couple of names on this list (Rose and A-Rod come to mind) but players like Joe DiMaggio, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, Joe Jackson, Tris Speaker, Miguel Cabrera, and Albert Pujols are all much bigger omissions than Boggs, Gwynn, Brett, Carew, or Ichiro (to name some popular complaints in these comments). Ichiro and Carew had no power and, despite very impressive high-avg seasons during their peaks, are nowhere near the top 20 batting averages of all time, so why would they be top 13 hitters of all time? Gwynn and Boggs are similar in that during their peaks they were considered the best hitters for avg in their day. Neither were HR hitters, but both usually turned in lots of doubles. Gwynn had the higher career avg and is the top player post WW2 (.338, tied for 18th all-time), but Boggs had the better eye (career .415 OBP). In the end, both were excellent hitters, but are probably outside the top 20 all-time. Brett had a handful of elite avg seasons (most notably his .390 in 1980), but was mostly a good-to-very good hitter for avg (.305 career). He was also another player who had more doubles power than HR power, although he did hit his share (1 30-HR season). At the end of the day, good avg + good power does not equal top 13 hitter of all-time.
The true top 10...
1) Ty Cobb
2) Ted Williams
3) Babe Ruth
4) Hank Aaron
5) Willie Mays
6) Stan "the man" Musial
7) Lou Gherig
8) Honus Wagner
9) Jimmie Foxx
10) Rogers Hornsby
Honorable mentions:
1) Albert Pujols
2) George Sisler
3) Pete Rose
4) Mickey Mantle
5) Tris Speaker
6) "Shoeless" Joe Jackson
7) Nap Lagoie
8) Tony Gwynn
9) Ichiro Suzuki
Rose,Cobb,speaker, shoeless Joe , Ruth Gehrig, mantle, Stan the Man, Williams, Gwynn,Carew,Hammering Hank,Hornsby,Bonds….. sorry got to put Barry in there. He was the most feared hitter in my life time. I don’t care about the roofs, you still have to hit the ball !!!
Keep in mind Williams some of what would have been his most productive years sering his country as a Marine pilot in WW2 and Korea.
He and Musial were both taken from baseball for the war.
@@nanapatful So was Dimaggio.
@@nanapatful Musial only missed one year - you can't compare them regarding time lost to military service.
AND he Qualified to fly Jets
@@charlesstuart7290 Williams Missed 5, what is your point
I would put Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ken Griffey Jr and Tony Gwynn on the list. Here's a note on Ted Williams. He is the only player to win a triple crown and not win the MVP the same year, and that happened to him twice in his career. Plus who knows what kind of numbers he would have put up if he hadn't joined the Marines and fought in World War 2 and Korea.
Williams joined the USMC reserves after WWII so he could keep on fly fighters one weekend a month. He was ticked off when he was activated for Korea.
Griffey Jr. as one of the 13 greatest ‘hitters’ 😂
Please try a little bit to be objective. KGJr was a great player, not even close to a top 20 hitter of all time.
The fact that Gwynn isn’t on this list makes this video a joke
@@tyeikenberg8938 - Get real. Over the years, there have been many great baseball players. I am not ready to say that Tony Gwynn belongs in the top 10. And Living in the San Diego area from 1980-84 and 1988-91, I got to see Gwynn many times. No joke.
right on i was going to mention those facts about Teddy Ball Game. if you want to teach a young one how to hit tell them to read "The Science of Hitting" by Ted Williams
Pretty good list. These things are never easy to do. Tony Gwynn, Joe DiMaggio, Jimmy Foxx, Tris Speaker, Joe Jackson, Rod Carew all deserve a tip of the cap.
Ichiro and Griffey too
Barry Bonds ABSOLUTELY STUNK when it counted in the playoffs. Kirby Puckett won 2 World Series' in just 12 years with lowly Minnesota who never wins anything.
I don’t have stats in front of me, but Nap ‘Larry’ Lajoie is grossly underrated and should be considered. Hornsby is on the list, but I still say he too is underrated - definitely a top 6 or so.
I don't go by opinion. I go by Ted Williams list. Head a formulae that shows who and why they are the greatest hitters actually the list wasn't that bad but the two players that were left off for just that mean it was unbelievable because it specially Jimmie Foxx Jamie Foxx Ted Williams considered with Gehrig and Ruth the three greatest hitters of all time. He said. With production was unbelievable year after year after year everything perfect with those three guys Williams at himself 4th but any other guy I don't think you had on there was DiMaggio Ida Lee Williams had him around 6 to 7th lol
gwynn
Rod Carew 7 batting titles , 18 x all star . 328 life time batting avg , 3053 hits
Joe Jackson 3rd highest lifetime batting average in the history of baseball, Ty Cobb was quoted as saying he was the greatest natural hitter he had ever seen and Babe Ruth was said to have thought so much of his hitting that he copied his swing. Not sure how he won't be on any list of "...Greatest Hitters in Baseball History"
Joseph Penny, Shoeless Joe Jackson is my Great Great Uncle.
Yes, that was a giant hole in this list. Shoeless Joe Jackson should be among the top 5.
I've never heard a single writer, announcer or sabermatrician make the observation that Jackson's lifetime average is inflated by about 8-12 points due to the fact that he was banned at age 31 at the height of his talent and therefore avoided playing for the declining older phase of his career when he would've hit for lower averages and his lifetime average would've dropped accordingly to about .345-.348. Still excellent and Hall of Fame worthy. But honestly, no better than Tris Speaker I'd bet. Lots of romantic exaggeration just like dying young and leaving a good looking corpse like James Dean or Elvis, you become a legend forever....
@@michaelkaminski8339 Except that Jackson's declining years would have been in a period of inflated offensive stats. I think his decline to age would not have been reflected by his average and he would easily have hit more homeruns.
Go stick a baseball up your ass. @@gregrush3024
Jimmy Foxx should of been on the list. He hit for power and average.
Yes I he should be double x played no games no pun intended
He could replace A-Rod or Bonds.
YES! Jimmy Foxx was one of only six (6) players in history to have a slugging percentage of .600 or better. From the top, it was Ruth, Williams, Foxx, Gehrig, Bonds, & Greenburg.
@@34Packardphaeton Please, forget about BB.
Ted Williams said his hits were like firecrackers and gunfire
I was surprised Tony Gwynn was left off. Growing up in the 80s as an Astros fan, I dreaded seeing him at the plate with runners on base more than contemporaries like Mike Schmidt and Dale Murphy. Schmidt and Murphy could scare you because they could change a game with one swing. But you could strike them out. With Gwynn, he didn't miss when he swung the bat. So your only hope with runners in scoring position was a liner right at someone.
I was thinking the same thing. Tony Gwynn won the batting title so many times.
Gwynn definitely belongs on here and considering Pete Rose is on here I think Ichiro should at least get an honorable mention considering that if you include his stats in Japan, he beat Rose's hit record.
Also, they couldn't find a spot for Ken Griffey Jr. WTF?
@@unkledoda420 That's because there are more than 13 players in the Top 13. The barrell is just too full. After you give the historic players their due, there's just not enough room left.
I expected Gwynn to be 2 or 3. I thought Ted Williams would be number 1. Tony struck out less in his entire career than some of todays players do in 2 or 3 seasons
My first thought as well while watching.
How on earth can you put arod & bonds on this list over Gwynn, HRS dont mean everything! This list needs to be re-evaluated!
Bond had one of the best career averages, hit 78 hrs in a season, walked plently of times in a season. A-Rod, along with his power and contact would become possibpy the best SS/3rd baseman of all time
Bonds*
In my humble opinion you really should leave the juicers off this list.
Because they're both far better hitters than Gwynn. Bonds is badly underrated on this list. Top 3 easily.
@@darrenhellwege6976 Bonds a far better hitter than Tony Gwynn? What game of baseball is it that you don't understand or appreciate? Tony was one of the best contact hitters in the history of the game. Up there with Ty Cobb,. Rogers Hornsby, Tris Speaker and Shoeless Joe Jackson. Or Rod Carew, a fantastic natural hitter and Hall of Famer. Bonds could NEVER compare to Ted Williams! The only modern era player to hit over .400 and hit 521 career home runs, despite missing 5 years to war service. All these players did it the RIGHT WAY, not Barry Bonds!
Rogers Hornsby's numbers were amazing.
Ted Williams looked up to him and sought advice from Hornsby even though Rogers wasn't the most approachable person.
--Yeah--Hit over .400 three times. Not too shabby, including .424 in 1924. This video should have had a lot more info and been longer. Stan Musial would have been the first guy to knock in 2,000 runs, except for a year in the service as a strong, young man. He knocked in 1,951. Aaron leads the list, followed by A-Roids and Pujols, who will surpass , with natural talent, A-Roids, probably in 2020, as the Angels are mis-using Albert this year, holding him out out of 20 games before the ASG, and he STILL had 45 knocked in by July 7th.
He suddenly started hitting HRs in 1921. Gee, I wonder why.
@@petemeis234
Ruth knocked in over 2000 runs.
Hit .382 during the 20"s. His "22 and "25 seasons are two of the best offensive ever.
Tony Gwynn never struck out more than 40 times a season. 1994 he was batting . 394 until the strike. he had 40 + games to get. 400
Precisely!
Tony Gwynn, should be on that list.
I stopped following mlb after the strike.
And he would have likely fell off but Gwynn was a great hitter and a class guy.
There was a guy in the 20s who struck out 4 times in a whole season….TWICE…..Not striking out is not the sign of a great hitter. On base Percentage and Slugging percentage are the two best indicators…..also, OPS+, which takes the league and the park into account…..The most outstanding hitters are Ruth, Bonds, Williams, Frank Thomas, Gehrig Foxx, Cobb, Speaker, Hornsby, Mantle, Musial, Pujols, Schmidt, Mays and Aaron. I know its 14, but oh well….
That's right, but did you know that Johnny Mize when he was with the NY Giants once hit 50 HRs in a season and only struck out 50 times A feat unequaled in baseball history
My all-time favorite is Ted Williams. He was the last player to bat .400 and at age 38, he came within 6 hits of doing it again. And he was a fighter pilot in the Korean War
A-Rod over Tony Gwynn? Absolutely insane
The only person A-Rod is over is Jo-Lo
@I’m a fat piece of shit NOT lol...AVG is a hitters dream
Rod Carew? Wade Boggs?
A Rod better for power and rbi's over Gwynn. Gwynn better for hits and batting AVG.
Jeter? I me my man has 3000 hits
Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in this list
Joe!
Matt Burke Shoeless Joe Jackson is my Great Great Uncle
Joe Jackson 3rd on all time career batting average list at
.3558
RBI 785
HITS 1722
HRS 54
OBP .423
SLG .517.
He should be on this list .
My favorite ballplayer.
His Birthday is July 16 .
Happy birthday Shoeless Joe !
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A A when Joe started in the mill team in South Carolina, he pitched but Joe threw the ball so hard he hurt 1 catcher's hand and broke 2 batters arms. Joe didn't want to pitch anymore. He became an outfielder with a nasty arm that threw out a lot of base runners.