...and here to confirm and validate our thoughts on this subject, none other than legendary writer Roger Angell in the current New Yorker, titled "THE BEST":
Quote:
I missed Christy Mathewson somehow but caught almost everyone else, down the years—Lefty Grove, Carl Hubbell, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Jack Morris, Curt Schilling, Randy Johnson—but here was the best.
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The rest of the piece is (obviously) worth reading:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/best