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Originally Posted by packs
I don't see how anyone could not answer Babe Ruth. It doesn't matter how the sports writers voted. There has only been one player in the history of the game to single handedly outhit an entire league. That player is Babe Ruth.
As talented and great as Cobb was, he didn't change the game. He only did things better than the players around him.
But Ruth did change the game, and every player after him has been trying to live up to what he did.
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The question wasn't who most transformed baseball.... It was who was the greatest pre-war player. You said it yourself, Cobb did things better than the players around him. Isnt that the definition of "best"?
More than most on the list, Ruth benefited from the end of the dead ball era.
Considering that Wagner and Cobb played most of thier career when conditions were harder for batters and they have greater all around stats/skills... Cobb and Wagner are clearly ahead of Cobb. I know the modern romanticism is all about Ruth...but that doesn't make him the best.
For me, the list goes Cobb, Wagner then Ruth.