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Posted By: Stephen Mitchell

Nobody compared to Babe Ruth. For the past two decades (plus) we have endured the Steroids Era. For those 20+ years well-engineered creatures have almost made Babe Ruth to be Ho Hum.

Hardly anyone truly compares to Babe Ruth - or Ty Cobb or Wagner or Williams or a select few true "first ballot" Hall of Famers.

But for my money, these non-steroids-using (so far as I am aware) skilled athletes are Hall of Famers NOW: Rice, Dawson, Lee Smith, Raines, Murphy, Blyleven, John, Baines, Trammell, Mattingly and Rickey Henderson. Since ten is the limit, I'll cut Mattingly this year since he's the most Yankee (and I am somewhat biased).