| There are four players in consideration for the greatest ballplayer of all time. Ruth, Williams, Bonds, and Wagner. Everybody else is at least one level below. This is objectively true: those four men are so far above what everybody else did on the field, and dominated to a degree totally unmatched by others, that a list containing anybody else in the top four slots betrays nothing more than a total ignorance of baseball, its history, and how games are won. The fifth slot could be any of several guys -- Cobb, Mays, possibly Mantle, a few others -- but the first four should merely be a matter of deciding in what order to put Ruth, Williams, Bonds and Wagner |