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					Originally Posted by bigtrain  I attended a lot of old-timers games in the sixties and seventies and it always annoyed me that Joe D insisted on being announced as "the greatest living ballplayer.  When was he ever that?  Babe Ruth died in 1948 but Cobb lived to 1961 and certainly by the late | 
	
 In 1969 he was voted the greatest living player.