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Posted on 5/4/11 at 1:38 pm to PrimetimeDaBoss
1. Ruth
2. Gehrig
Everyone else
2. Gehrig
Everyone else
Posted on 5/4/11 at 1:39 pm to Nativebullet
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RUTH.... GEHRIG.... then the rest.... RUTH's numbers will never be beat... he is baseball.
The irony is Gehrig would have come really close to beating Ruth's numbers had he stayed healthy.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 1:42 pm to theunknownknight
Kevin Cash 
Posted on 5/4/11 at 1:44 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Carl Pavano
Posted on 5/4/11 at 1:49 pm to theunknownknight
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RUTH.... GEHRIG.... then the rest.... RUTH's numbers will never be beat... he is baseball.
The irony is Gehrig would have come really close to beating Ruth's numbers had he stayed healthy.
He played 17 years... only in the last two was he suffering from ALS (his numbers were tremendous in 1937)
Posted on 5/4/11 at 2:00 pm to molsusports
Jeter >> Yogi
sorry dudes. just because he is on the decline right now, doesn't take away what he did for 12 seasons in pinstripes.
sorry dudes. just because he is on the decline right now, doesn't take away what he did for 12 seasons in pinstripes.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 2:04 pm to El Duderino
interesting that you picked on yogi... because most people today view him as a semi-functional retard or cute old man
Not a guy who won 3 MVPs and walked about twice as much as he struck out
Not a guy who won 3 MVPs and walked about twice as much as he struck out
Posted on 5/4/11 at 2:21 pm to molsusports
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interesting that you picked on yogi
well I didn't, but now I will
His numbers weren't all that great when he won his MVP's.
In 1951, he batted .294 with 27 hrs, 88 rbi's.
In 1954, he batted .307 with 22 hrs, 125 rbi's.
In 1955, he batted .272 with 27 hr's, 108 rbi's.
A career BA of .285 with 2,148 hits.
Whereas Jeter, is a career hitter of .313 and will finish with over 3,000 hits.
Yogi was a hell of a yankee, but I think Jeter rounds out the top 5 (after Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and the Mick)
Posted on 5/4/11 at 2:28 pm to molsusports
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He played 17 years... only in the last two was he suffering from ALS (his numbers were tremendous in 1937)
Ruth played 400 more games. Add to that Gehrig hypothetically being able to replay 1938 healthy and you could have, possibly 3.5 years of peak playability. That would put Gehrig above Ruth in RBIs, RUNs, Hits, Batting Average, and slightly behind in him home runs.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 2:33 pm to PrimetimeDaBoss
This like picking the greatest Zeppelin song. We all know it's Stairway, but we include other greats just to make it an interesting conversation.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 2:49 pm to PrimetimeDaBoss
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:00 pm to PrimetimeDaBoss
Dimaggio fricked Marilyn Monroe.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 3:02 pm to El Duderino
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what he did for 14 seasons in pinstripes.
Posted on 5/4/11 at 4:16 pm to El Duderino
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His numbers weren't all that great when he won his MVP's.
In 1951, he batted .294 with 27 hrs, 88 rbi's.
In 1954, he batted .307 with 22 hrs, 125 rbi's.
In 1955, he batted .272 with 27 hr's, 108 rbi's.
he was catcher!
Posted on 5/4/11 at 4:26 pm to TigerintheNO
Gehrig
And, any Yankee that ever wore red sox colors should be eliminated from contention as the greatest
And, any Yankee that ever wore red sox colors should be eliminated from contention as the greatest
Posted on 5/4/11 at 5:04 pm to El Duderino
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sorry dudes. just because he is on the decline right now, doesn't take away what he did for 12 seasons in pinstripes.
12????
Posted on 5/4/11 at 7:35 pm to TigerintheNO
exactly
yogi was a catcher and not playing in the steroid and DH era... and (again) he was a 3 time MVP - whereas Jeter is not
Yogi (for his position and era esp) was a superior player to Jeter IMO...
RE: the Gehrig vs Ruth discussion. Obviously Ruth was a world class pitcher and finished with more than 200 more HRs than Gehrig. Gehrig was near the end of his career when he came down with ALS (around 36)... you can speculate he would have been able to perform at an extremely high level for additional years... but that seems unlikely at that age (unless you are Barry Bonds on the juice)
yogi was a catcher and not playing in the steroid and DH era... and (again) he was a 3 time MVP - whereas Jeter is not
Yogi (for his position and era esp) was a superior player to Jeter IMO...
RE: the Gehrig vs Ruth discussion. Obviously Ruth was a world class pitcher and finished with more than 200 more HRs than Gehrig. Gehrig was near the end of his career when he came down with ALS (around 36)... you can speculate he would have been able to perform at an extremely high level for additional years... but that seems unlikely at that age (unless you are Barry Bonds on the juice)
Posted on 5/4/11 at 8:03 pm to molsusports
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RE: the Gehrig vs Ruth discussion. Obviously Ruth was a world class pitcher
not sure if you can really include his pitching stats in this discussion. i don't think he pitched much for the yankess...gehrig and ruth had comparable avg season stats...
and technically, if the question is "the greatest yankee", all those victories ruth had as a red sox was actually hurting/beating the yanks. so i guess you would have to count that against him...yeah ruth would be considered a better ball plyer, but a better "yankee" is debatable
Posted on 5/4/11 at 8:39 pm to PrimetimeDaBoss
Jack Eliot needs to be considered.
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