10 Greatest Baseball Players In The World

Ah, the bat's clatter. the aroma of newly cut grass. Trying not to get splashed by the massive beer that the inebriated fan sitting behind you is clinging to, munching on Cracker Jack. Baseball, the national pastime of the United States, is the perfect summertime activity.

Your great-great-grandfather would probably be able to easily follow a modern game if he were magically positioned in the stands. At least in part, baseball's place in the American zeitgeist is due to its long history and general consistency over decades. Comparing players from a variety of eras is a bit simpler with this history and consistency than it is with other sports, which is what I will attempt here. Let's see what happens!

10 Greatest Baseball Players of all time

• Roger Clemens
• Honus Wagner
• Stan Musial
• Ty Cobb
• Walter Johnson
• Hank Aaron
• Ted Williams
• Barry Bonds
• Willie Mays
• Babe Ruth

10. Roger Clemens

Roger Clemens During his legendary 24-year career, Roger Clemens won a record seven Cy Young Awards as the best pitcher in either the American League or the National League. He also threw 4,672 strikeouts, which ranks third among all-time pitchers. After leading the Boston Red Sox to a 24–4 record with a 2.48 earned run average (ERA) and 238 strikeouts in 1986, he became one of the very few starting pitchers to win the league MVP award. Additionally, he carried out all of this while a number of opposing batters were taking steroids, causing offensive statistics to soar at the time.

Why then is he not higher? Well, Clemens probably took steroids himself, so his achievements aren't quite as impressive for the time as they seem. In addition, he is possibly the player I have resented the most during my time as a baseball fan, so he deserves a spot on this list. However, he cannot be moved up any further lest I complete the list by throwing my keyboard out a window in a fit of rage. Subjectivity is a good thing!

9.Honus Wagner

Honus Wagner Many current baseball fans are probably most familiar with Honus Wagner as the subject of the most valuable baseball card ever made, the American Tobacco Company's scarce 1909–11 T206 Wagner card. Although the card's rarity is a big reason why it can sell for upwards of $2 million, it wouldn't be nearly as valuable if the player depicted on it wasn't one of the best players to ever step on a diamond. The Flying Dutchman (god, they thought of such great epithets once upon a time) drove the Public Association in batting normal multiple times throughout his profession and resigned with a heavenly .328 normal regardless of having played during the offense-killing “dead-ball period.”

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He had the second most hits (3,420), doubles (643), triples (252), and runs batted in (1,732) in major-league history when he retired in 1917, and all of these numbers still rank among the top 25. In the 1936 balloting for the inaugural class of the Baseball Hall of Fame, where he was one of the five players chosen from among the thousands of players who had played the game up to that point, Wagner's greatness is demonstrated.

8. Stan Musial

Stan Musial Stan the Man was a great player throughout history and a model citizen. He may have been the greatest person on this list. The adored icon of St. Louis is as entwined with his hometown as any athlete has ever been, having spent his entire 22-season career with the city's Cardinals. Stan Musial led the Cardinals to three World Series championships in 1942, 1944, and 1946.

He also won three MVP awards in 1943, 1946, and 1948 and hit.331 over his entire career. Musial's low single-season strikeout total of 46 (in 505 plate appearances) as a 41-year-old who started in the Cardinals' outfield is evidence of his keen eye for the ball. That year, he still hit.330.) As noted by pitcher Carl Erskine: His hitting was so consistently good that opponents frequently resigned themselves to their fate. I've thrown Stan my best pitch and played third, and I've had some success.

7. Ty Cobb

Ty Cobb Now comes what could be the greatest human drop-off in the history of list items. Ty Cobb was the evil troll under the bridge who threw boulders at children passing by, while Musial was a prince from a fairy tale when it came to manners. Cobb was a supremely talented player who had the highest lifetime batting average (.366) in major-league history despite being an unrepentant racist who frequently sharpened his spikes to maximize the potential for injury to opponents on hard slides and who once fought a fan in the stands. In his 24-year career, he led the American League (AL) in batting average a ridiculously high 12 times, but he was more than just a singles hitter; he also led the AL in slugging percentage eight times, which measures a hitter's power production. Over the course of three seasons (1911,.420; 1912, .409; and 1922,.401), and he retired in 1928 as the all-time leader in hits (4,189), runs scored (2,246), and stolen bases (892), all of which were broken only late in the 20th century or early in the 21st. He also held the record for his batting average.

6. Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson Walter Johnson was a talent that transcended generations and established dominant pitching for decades. He was so great that, over the course of his 21-year career, he consistently topped the AL in strikeouts, leading the league 12 times. Big Train pitched for the Washington Senators his entire professional career. Throughout his career, he threw 110 complete game shutouts, which is still the most in major league history and a record that will never be broken.

Clayton Kershaw, the current active leader, has 15 over eight and a half seasons as of this writing.) He won 36 games in 1913 with a 1.14 earned run average and an incredible 0.78 WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched; To win the Chalmers Award, which is the modern equivalent of the MVP, one must have a WHIP of less than one hundred and fifty. In 1924, when he led the Senators to their first World Series championship, he won a second MVP award. Johnson set a 56-year record for career strikeouts with 3,509, and his 417 victories rank second only to Cy Young's 511.

5. Hank Aaron

Hank Aaron As the generation's Home Run King, Hank Aaron is frequently regarded as merely a tremendous power hitter—albeit one of the greatest ever. However, Hammerin' Hank's 755 career home runs—a 33-year record—are only the tip of the iceberg. Naturally, his legendary power can be seen in his all-time highs of 2,297 runs batted in and 6,856 total bases. However, he also had a solid career batting average of.305 and won three Gold Gloves for his outfield work.

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Aaron was a great player who made the All-Star team 21 times and hit at least 30 home runs in 15 seasons. Aaron finished his career in 1976 with the second most hits (3,771) and runs scored (2,174) in major-league history. This was in addition to his standing records.

4. Ted Williams

Ted Williams Ted Williams has been referred to as the greatest pure hitter who ever lived for a long time. Despite missing nearly five full seasons of his prime due to military service, he ranks in the top 20 in total runs scored, home runs, runs batted in, and walks. His lifetime on-base percentage is the highest of all time at.482.

See what I mean about the nicknames? The Splendid Splinter was well-known for his keen eye, which contributed to his.400 batting average (.406 in 1941) in his final season in the major leagues. Over the course of his 19-year career, the icon of the Boston Red Sox was AL leader in batting average six times, slugging percentage nine times, and on-base percentage 12 times. Williams has been described as the best fisherman and fighter pilot ever, in addition to being the best hitter ever. He had a notoriously tense relationship with the public, despite or perhaps because of the accolades. John Updike, a well-known author, put it this way when Williams refused to come out for a final curtain call after hitting a home run in his final game.

3.Barry Bonds

Gods do not respond to letters Barry Bonds Yes, I understand. He was grouchy, dressing, and certainly a steroid client — not the very sort of fellow who ought to get the opportunity to be vindicated and procure spot number three on this rundown. Many baseball fans see Barry Bonds as the symbol of the steroid era and its alleged legitimacy.

But before he allegedly started juicing, he was already a surefire Hall of Famer, and steroids would not have affected his incredible eye-hand coordination, which resulted in an all-time high 2,558 career walks and a staggering.444 lifetime on-base percentage.

The problem with steroids is that it is impossible to say with absolute certainty how they affect a baseball player's performance. Therefore, let us just take note of the incredible statistics that Bonds amassed: a record-breaking 762 home runs (including a single-season record of 73 in 2001), a record seven career MVP awards, and 688 intentional walks—more than twice as many as the player with the second most of all time—a striking testament to the unrivaled fear that Bonds instilled in pitchers of the opposing team.

2. Willie Mays

Willie Mays, in contrast to his godson Bonds, whose father, Bobby, was a teammate of Mays's from 1968 to 1972, Mays does not require any mental gymnastics to earn a spot on this list. Mays not only had incredible stats at the plate, including 3,283 hits, 660 home runs, and 1,903 runs batted in, but he also played great in the outfield, earning him 12 Gold Glove Awards in a row (1957–68) and being called the best all-around player the game has ever seen. In fact, Mays's most memorable defensive performance was also one of the most memorable in baseball history: his over-the-shoulder catch at the warning track in the eighth inning of a 1954 World Series matchup that tied the game helped the New York Giants win that game and win the championship. That was the only title he ever won, but the 20-time All-Star and two-time MVP's relative lack of team success does not diminish his reputation.

1. Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth Well, this is, if there ever was one, a no-brainer. Although he played in a talent pool that was artificially limited before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947 and decades before advanced training programs produced athletes who looked like athletes, Ruth was such a historic talent that he transcends these limitations. In point of fact, the dead-ball era came to an end with his seismic entry into the major leagues. The previous record for the most home runs in a season was 27 when he first entered the majors in 1914. He had more than doubled it in just seven years with 59, and in 1927, he hit a personal record of 60 dingers. He finished 12th in the AL in home runs. His astonishing career slugging percentage of.690 remains the best of all time, and the gap between his mark and second place is larger than the gap between second place and ninth. He was such a phenomenal power hitter. In addition, he was a great pitcher in his early years, leading the AL with a 1.75 ERA and pitching 29 and a half innings in a row without allowing a run in two World Series. After all, if you dominate the game as much as the Babe did, you should probably do so in all aspects, right? In addition, Ruth's charisma made him the first truly transcendent sports superstar in the United States. He regularly made headlines across the nation for both his achievements on and off the field.

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His work with the legendary New York Yankees teams in the 1920s helped baseball reach the level of national recognition it still enjoys today. Ruth was not only the greatest baseball player ever, but also the most significant one.