It would be easy to compile a list of great home run hitters or other power statistics for this list. The long ball certainly brings people to the games. But that would ignore other aspects of offensive baseball like hitting for average, speed and base running for doubles and triples as well as stealing bases. Great hitters excel at most of these items and below you’ll find the best of the best. A case could be made that statistics and more to the point, historical statistics matter more in Major League Baseball than in any other sport.
The statistics for this list were gathered from easily accessible sites on the web and a simple comparison was made to determine who should be here. A word on statistics for the uninitiated: Batting average indicates the player’s ability to get a hit of any kind when he’s at bat. RBI’s or ‘runs batted in’ points to a hitter’s ability to get hits to drive players on base to score runs. Slugging percentage is a matter of a player who not only hits, but can hit doubles, triples or home runs. Other statistics will be discussed with each player profile. On a more controversial note, I have not included any players from the steroid era. Or more precisely, players who have been suspected of taking performance enhancing drugs. So you will not see familiar names like Bonds, McGuire, Sosa or Manny. Another controversial aspect of creating this list is trying to compare batters from different eras.
Many factors that should be noted are what ball park they called home, the pitchers they faced, certain rules that were advantageous to hitters or pitchers, dead ball versus live ball era and on and on. I’m sure we’ll hear about that in the comment section as well as “I cannot believe you left off Player X.” Well anybody can look the stats up, and if I’ve missed some, it isn’t because of a lack of research.
Anyone who knows anything at all about baseball knows about Babe Ruth. The Babe revolutionized the game by crushing the ball over the fence in numbers never before dreamed of. In my opinion, his home run record setting season in 1927 where he hit 60 home runs is clearly overshadowed by another record setting season in 1921. He hit 59 home runs, scored 177 runs, tallied 171 RBI’s, had a .378 batting average, 44 doubles, 16 triples and even stole 17 bases. Combine all of that and a gaudy .8463 slugging percentage and 457 total bases touched by the Bambino and you quite simply have the greatest offensive season of all time. Consider that before 1920, the record for home runs in a single season was 27. Ruth hit 54 in 1920 and 59 in 21. Quite the opposite of the steroid laced power hitter of recent times, Babe was eating hot dogs and drinking beer in the dugout after God knows what he did the night before.
Another iconic figure of the New York Yankees famous ‘murderers row,’ was first basemen Lou Gehrig. Gehrig was the model of consistency and durability as he played in 2,130 consecutive games. A record that was recently broken by Cal Ripken in 1995. A close look at his statistics reveals some astonishing numbers because 1927 was probably his best season, but he had plenty of seasons that could have been mentioned. For example, his 184 rbi’s in 1931 still stands as all time best in the American League. His other 1927 statistics are fantastic as well. Starting with a .373 batting average, Gehrig had 218 hits including 52 doubles, 18 triples, 47 homers, 175 rbi’s, scored 149 runs with a 765 slugging percentage and touched 447 total bases.
Jimmy Foxx was one of the most feared hitter of his time. He consistently was among league leaders in slugging and runs batted in. In 1932 he blasted 58 home runs, scored 151 runs and 169 runs batted in. He also finished the season with a .749 slugging percentage and totaled 438 bases. As great as this season was, he followed it up in 1933 by winning the triple crown for batters with a .356 average, 163 rbi’s and 48 home runs. For his efforts, Foxx won back to back MVP honors in 1932 and 1933.
Wilson’s 1930 campaign was one of the best ever in the National League. Wilson set an all time record with 191 runs batted in. A record most consider untouchable. He also hit 56 home runs which was the first time in the National League anyone had ever hit over 50. That record stood until Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa surpassed it in 1998, with the advantage of using steroids of course. His statistics for the 1930 season include a .356 batting average, 146 runs scored, a .722 slugging percentage and 423 total bases on top of the aforementioned home runs and rbi’s.
The Georgia Peach has been regarded by many experts as the greatest hitter of the dead ball era. Many of his records are still tops as of today, including career batting average (.367) career batting titles (11) career runs (2,245) and many others. He was a feared base runner and in 1911 he stole 83 bases which was practically unheard of for that day and age. He lead every major offensive category in 1911 except home runs. He finished the year with a .420 batting average, 248 hits, 147 runs, 127 rbi’s, 83 stolen bases, 47 doubles, 24 triples, a .621 slugging average and 367 total bases. There’s no doubt about Cobb’s ability and sheer will to succeed on the field, however most of his accomplishments have been overshadowed by his surly and racist behavior. His most famous scrape was when he attacked a heckler with one hand missing and several fingers missing on his second hand in the stands. When other fans pleaded him to stop because the man had no hands, Cobb reportedly said, “I don’t care if he has no feet.”
Hornsby became the only man in major league baseball history to hit over 40 home runs and have a batting average over .400 in 1922. Hornsby took full advantage of the new live ball era of baseball in which new rules as well as new balls were introduced that benefited hitters greatly. During that year Hornsby set records for rbi’s – 152, slugging percentage at .722, doubles – 46, hits 250 and runs scored. He also ended the year with an astonishing 450. At the end of his career only Ty Cobb’s batting average of .367 was higher than Hornsby’s career at .358. And according to Wikipedia, Bruce Hornsby is a distant relative of the great ball player.
1930 was certainly a great year for hitters, as we’ve seen from Hack Wilson. Chuck Klein was in his second full season for the Phillies and hit a respectable 40 home runs but also had 59 doubles and sported a .386 batting average. Some of the other numbers are quite ridiculous as well as he scored 158 runs and tallied 250 hits along with a .687 slugging percentage. When the year was done he had touched a total of 445 bases. Probably the most ridiculous fact about all of these fantastic numbers was that he didn’t garner any votes for Most Valuable Player. Klein holds the record for home runs in his first two full season as a major league player at 83.
Musial was simply on fire during the 1948 season. When the dust settled he led every offensive statistic they could come up with except home runs which he was one short of. His batting average of .376 was 43 points ahead of the person in second place. He led the league in hits – 230, doubles – 50, triples – 18, rbi’s – 131, batting average – .376, on base percentage – .450, slugging – .702 and total bases – 429. All leading up to an obvious MVP award, his third. Musial never led the league in home runs, but finished 6th all time at the time of his retirement. Another strange quirk to his fabulous numbers was that he had an equal amount of hits in his home ball park and at away parks – 1,815 hits each. Stan the Man began his career in 1941 with two hits at the plate and finished his career 22 years later with two hits, to which a sportswriter said he hadn’t improved at all.
Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio helped lead the Yankees to 9 World Series Titles in 13 years. In 1937, his sophomore season for the Yankees, DiMaggio blistered the American League blasting 167 rbi’s, scoring 151 runs, 46 home runs with a .346 batting average and touching 418 bases. He led the league in runs scored, homers, slugging percentage and total bases and finished the year in second place for the MVP. And of course the Yankees tallied another World Series Championship. DiMaggio is also well known for marrying Marilyn Monroe and being mentioned in the Simon and Garfunkle song, ‘Mrs. Robinson.’
For a fine example of a modern day hitter, one needs to look no further than Albert Pujols. In 2003, Pujols had one of the best offensive seasons in Cardinal history. He batted .359, with 43 homers, 124 rbi’s, had 212 hits including 51 doubles and a .667 slugging percentage and scored 137 runs. Too bad he finished second in MVP voting to Barry Bonds. Pujols is again on fire in 2009, as his halfway season marks are quite astonishing. As of this date, he already has 32 home runs, 87 rbi’s, scored 73 times, touched 222 bases and a .773 slugging percentage – and the season is only half over. If he continues on this pace it will absolutely rank much better than his already amazing season in 2003.
Other notable seasons not included in the list: Hank Greenburg – 1937 (.668 slugging), Hank Aaron – 1959 (46 doubles, 400 total bases, .636 slugging), Al Simmons – 1925 (43 doubles, .387 average, 392 total bases), George Brett – 1980 (.390 average, 158 runs), Nap Lajoie – 1901 (.426 average, 350 total bases), Mickey Mantle – 1956 (52 home runs, .353 average, .705 slugging, 376 total bases) Willie Mays, 1954, 1955 (1954 – .667 slugging, 377 total bases, 1955 – 51 home runs, .659 slugging, 382 total bases), Frank Robinson – 1962 – (51 doubles, .342 average, .624 slugging, 380 total bases), George Sisler – 1920 ( 257 hits, 49 doubles, 18 triples, .407 average, .632 slugging, 399 total bases), Ichiro Suzuki – 2004 (MLB record 262 hits), Ted Williams – 1941 (Last man to hit over .400 batting average, .735 slugging, 335 total bases), Ricky Henderson – 1982 (130 stolen bases)
stop whining about it being american, dont we have to put up with your rugby stuff?
Great site, I now have you bookmarked to come back again.
For a supposed baseball fan, you sure did spell a number of players’ names incorrectly.
I know it’s not MLB, but I think you should add a bonus for Josh Gibson’s ’37 season… 39 runs, 41 hits, 7 doubles, 4 triples, 13 homers, 36 rbi’s, 17 walks, .423 avg and .979 slg… oh, and he only played in 25 games. No tellin what the dude coulda done in the MLB and no telling what his stats woulda been if they actually kept them the whole time he played.
For more on Hack Wilson, go to his official site: Hack191.com
I also love the fact that people are happy that they left of the steroid users and at the same time are happy that Pujols is #1. I know it’s purely conjecture, but that dude is on something, and it’s sad cuz he’s an amazing “pure hitter” and the best in the game right now.
Albert Pujols? You’ve got to be kidding me. Sure, he’s a great player. Not even close to Ted Williams. The only St. Louis players that belong on this list are Stan Musial and Rogers Hornsby. Go kill yourself.
Compiling a list of players from the last 120 years isnt really a good comparison. With all the changes in the game, and changes in players. This list should be cut in half, “players before 1950, and players after 1950″. This would show a more accurate comparison of stats.
@Tom (121): Even though the list of comments has now reached 121, I still think it is of limited interest. Jeremy has managed to increase the tally of comments by contributing 24 times. Well done. Without his sterling contributions, this would have been one of the lower commented lists in the site.
Why is it so important to you to keep dwelling on this? Other lists have limited interests as well, why aren’t you whining about those? Book, movie, and music genres, to name a few examples. No single list appeals to everyone. And it is not at all uncommon for commentors to post multiple times in the same list, especially if they happen to be in a back-and-forth thread convo about something that interests them. What’s the big deal? More importantly, the listwriter is clearly passionate about the subject, as evidenced by the quality of the material presented. In short, give it a rest and move on to another list if you don’t like this one.
Just not my cup of tea – my interest lay elsewhere. A final comment from me…
Thank goodness…we wouldn’t want you to be artificially padding the comment tally, now would we…
The top 10 offensive season of all time were achieved by 3 men. I understand the idea of not wanting the same players over and over again, but to not put two of those men on the list is ridiculous. Bonds and Williams belong on the list, no exceptions. Mickey also deserves better than just honorable mention. And McGwire, Bagwell, Thomas, McCovey, Lajoie and Wagner all deserve at least honorable mentions. Oh, and Chuck Klein doesn’t belong anywhere near this list (he wasn’t even one of the top 5 hitters in 1930, let alone top 10 in the entire history of baseball).
@Tom (121):
Even though your comments have been addressed directly or indirectly a few times now, I still think it is of limited interest. You have managed to increase the tally of comments by contributing two times to a list you have zero interest in. Well done. Without your sterling contributions, you would have minimally but still somewhat helped your original hypothesis that this list would garner a pittance of comments.
Interesting how you say a list with 97 comments or less is in some way inferior to the other lists here, particularly those with an overflow of troll comments. I’d like to see you create a list with the sole purpose of generating comments of interest. Yes, I’d like to see what list that would be and the quality of the content that lay within.
And for the record, limited interest only applies to those with closed minds unable to tolerate even something as passive as reading about an unfamiliar subject or unable to tolerate the fact that others may not share your same interests. I, myself, am a baseball ignoramous but enjoyed the fact that bucslim wrote the list in such a way that laymans like myself aren’t overwhelmed…like I’m beginning to get with all the names and stats in the comments! But it’s still an interesting read through the comments because they’re intellegent contributions.
…Well, most of them are, anyway…
@132 gabi
you should go to the website baseballreference.com and look up the players if you are becoming more interested in them. It truly is a good time
well to stat geeks like me
It takes a smart person to understand the game of baseball. Some just aren’t prepared for the challenge.
Gabi, that was a very interesting post, but I’m afraid all of it was lost on the idiot it was intended for. Unfortunate, yes, but I’m not sure I would want to share interests with someone like that cat anyhow.
@z (131): Chuck Klein doesn’t belong anywhere near this list (he wasn’t even one of the top 5 hitters in 1930
Wrong, in 1930 he was in the top 5 in many hitting categories, and led the league in a couple. Do some research before you spout off.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/1930-batting-leaders.shtml
This is really the only list in a long time where i could actually come up with intelligent posts throughout the entire discussion haha
#86, timbucto…
Re: #41 John: if you think Pujols was on the juice in 2003 or now, you don’t know the man. Take a look at rookie vs. retiring pictures of Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa. Then take a look at rookie vs. current pictures of Pujols. That’ll tell you the whole story.
If you knew what fat Albert looked like in his juco/community college years, you would retract that statement. He’s on something. HGH? Horse tranqs? It’ll come out eventually. Manny never got any bigger. A Fraud has been pretty close to the same size all along. Palmeiro. You don’t have to get a lot bigger to get a lot stronger, and HGH still isn’t traceable… As a baseball fan for my entire life, I hope Pujols is clean because, if so, we’re watching one of the best of all time. I just have a hrad time believing that he isn’t on something, along with a lot of other players that haven’t tested positive yet.
@136 Cannon
Shut your mouth, you can think Pujos is on something but never ever ever say it out loud haha. Everyone wants to believe he is clean, because honesltly he is the best hitter since Ted Williams IMO. And when i say overal i mean at every facet of hitting rather then just excelling in one area.
It might have been said, but Ty Cobb’s career run record was actually 2,246, and it has been broken by Rickey Henderson with 2,295 runs.
Jeremy, the dude can flat out rake. That’s why I hope, for baseball’s sake, he’s clean. I just don’t see it happening that way.
Interesting baseball side note… I saw today that Bud Selig is considering lifting Pete Rose’s lifetime ban. Wonder if he’d be voted into the HOF, if that were to happen.
@ Cannon
Shhhh about Pujols, its like when a pitcher has a no hitter or perfect game going on.
And Pete Rose. Hell yeah, after all these years you may even see him being unanimous. I dont see it happening but for nostalgia sake
Hey, I don’t mind if he keeps hitting, cuz for some odd reason, he can never hit against my Mets… Well, not for a .340 clip like he does to the rest of the league.
@ Cannon
Yeah but you cant bring up the steroids thing.
Would you agree though, best pure hitter since Ted Williams? I mean even Bonds wasnt the pure hitter that Pujols is
There have been some amazing hitters since Teddy Ballgame. Gwynn, Carew and even Pete Rose. I would probably agree that Pooholes (heh) is one of the best since the Thumper, but I will need to see his entire career play out, and barring no positive tests (sorry for mentioning it again) he definitely has the hand/eye, bat speed and ridiculous knowledge of the game and it’s situations, to be the best since the Splendid Splinter.
Hmmmm, well, no way to work in the other nickname, so… the Kid.
Yeah there have been plenty of amazing hitters, but none that have put everything together so well. All those guys you mentioned were contact/average hitters with high hit totals and not much to speak of as far as power numbers go. I mean Pujols is top 3 in league history, or something like that, for his first 8 years. It really doesnt look like he is going to start declining anytime soon either.
See? That last sentence is what brings up the PEDs… and, pure hitter doesn’t necessarily mean power numbers, IMO. Look, I’m not gonna argue against Albie. The dude can flat out hit and hit well.
Ty cobb does not have the most career runs scored, rickey henderson does. He has 2295, cobb 2246, just a side note…
Sorry I’ve been absent from commenting here.
Once again I must point out that I originally submitted this list with no rankings whatsoever. So I hope that people will understand that I meant the title of this list sincerely, they are great seasons. And whether your guy didn’t make the list because I listed someone else, you have to admit this isn’t an easy list to compile. What criteria are you going to use to distinguish what gets listed and what doesn’t? Do you make it by position, career etc?
I probably should have mentioned DiMaggio’s hitting streak. I probably should have looked into a few more modern players to list. Perhaps I should have looked a little closer at Bonds before his suspected steroid use.
Well I didn’t and I’m not sorry. My pitchers list included Roger Clemons and I caught all kinds of hell for that despite the fact I didn’t want to list him anyway.
As for Ted’s comment #121, I have no idea why you even come to this site. Surely every list that shows up here isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. As far as I’m concerned, this site is tailor made for sports lists, and especially baseball. I’ll try to send you a PM the next time I submit another list about baseball so you can be sure to go elsewhere that day.
As for those who disagree with my choices, I encourage you to think of the best hitters ever, look up the stats and figure it out for yourself. It isn’t easy, because you have to take into account ball park, era and what numbers mean the most to you. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would say that the folks I’ve chosen don’t belong here. The numbers speak for themselves, especially total bases. If you think about it, that is exactly what offensive baseball is really about – getting around the bases.
Thanks to jeremy and gabi for having my back. Sorry about the misspellings.
I loved the list. I’ve only commented on 2 lists so far and both were baseball lists. No one is ever gonna have the exact same 10 guys and that’s what makes it so much fun. Everyone has their opinion and everyone has the one guy that no one else wants on there. Buc, you did a terrific job and you did some great research for this list. I disagreed with Pujols for personal reasons. Obviously the dude can hit. Like I said a couple times, I hope he’s clean cuz I enjoy watching him hit against everyone but my Mets. Keep up the good work slim. I had your back as well
@MT (14): commented earlier about the lack of ethnic diversity on this list. What’s tragic is that many of the players from the so called “Negro League” may have been eligible for this list. Sadly the racism of the times kept them off the Major League teams. One interesting fact; the stadium/team owners made a profit off of the “Negro” League teams by renting their stadiums to them. The money to be made contributed to why they were slow to integrate the teams.
Thanks Cannons11 – no slight intended. I need all the friends I can get. And as a lifelong Astros fan, I’m not big on Pujols either.
I wished that whole steroids thing would just go away so we can all enjoy the game. It sucks now because when you see a freak like Pujols, that thing is going to creep into your mind. Is he or isn’t he? Surely no one could hit like that without some ‘help?’ Like I said in the Babe’s profile, he did it in spite of the way he lived. Think of the numbers if he was on the juice.
Thanks, you guys! What can I say… I may not know much about baseball but how can I hate a sport that created the batting cages where I go grab a bat and hit two balls? …of every ten balls the machine gives me, of course. I wasn’t thinking anything dirty.
ok, this is the second time I’ve read in the comments about considering the ball park when *****yzing stats. Are they really that significantly different? How so? Is it the environment created by the fans? Or something akin to the differences of turf in football and ice in hockey?
The dimensions in the pars are considerably different from city to city… not to mention how much smaller most of the parks are, compared to the years of Ruth, Mantle, etc… Then you get into elevation, weather, blah blah blah. It’s what makes baseball discussions so much fun. Another thing to consider is the way the game, today, has been taken away from the pitchers. Players on this list (minus pooholes of course) were hitting against pitchers that threw spitballs, and used numerous “foreign objects” that would get them suspended today. It’s all subjective and makes for very interesting rhetoric, quite obviously.
The mound was lowered, the ball is MUCH harder now than in years past. It’s way too hard to make a list of just 10 seasons out of the 100 plus years and 100 plus players that have played the game, just in the MLB. It’s been mentioned a couple times (once by me) about the talent that never made it into the MLB due to racism. Josh Gibson was absolute beast and hit some monster shots, yet he dies a few months after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier… Geez, I love baseball!!!!
Ok, that was obviously suppose to say “1000 plus players”
my bad
Bucslim: are u not gonna address the fact that you took this list from a show on the MLB network. Give credit where credit is due
gabi – they are different, and smart owners build their team to suit whatever conditions they have at the ballpark.
I said I was an Astros fan – back in the day the Astrodome was probably the best ‘pitchers’ park in the National league. The ‘power alleys’ – the distance from home plate to a traditional place in all ball parks where home runs occur most of the time were 370 feet. What this means is that even the best home run hitters would have to crush the ball to get a homer. So the Astros would build their team based upon pitching and speed. They’d try to get a runner on, and then hit singles or steal bases to get him home, instead of relying on a home run or a power hitter to drive them in. This is called ‘small ball’ in baseball and the games would typically end in low scores.
If you take all of this into account, Coors Field in Denver has relatively the same distances in the power allies, but has routinely been the park where the most home runs are hit due to the thin air.
@157 Rolo
Sorry buddy but shut up.
Gabi – One of the big things with Dimaggio as well is that left field in Old Yankee stadium was something like 350(??) down the line and 475 feet or something like that to the pwer alley (located between the left field foul pole and center field). So basically a hit that is a for sure homerun in any other park, especially nowadays would just be a long long fly ball.
@ Cannon
I guess i shouldnt have said pure hitter, i meant overall hitter. Hitting for high average/power etc.
Rolo, I emphatically did NOT take this list from whatever show you’re talking about. I never saw it, never heard about it until I read your post earlier today. I’ve been working on this list for some time, RandomPrecision can attest to that, and has the PM’s to prove it.
You’re assertion is NOT a fact. You even admitted that some of the entries are different in your post #97. You said they did it by position, I did it by statistical research to find what I considered to be the best, regardless of position. If I indeed took it from whatever program you’re talking about, it would have been identical. I spent hours going over statistics and profiles and wrote everything myself. Even if it is similar, so what? I don’t see the MLB network publishing lists on the Listverse. So I have some entries that are the same? They came up with similar conclusions. Whoop de doo!
I do not get the MLB network anyway.
Right on. Pujols is definitely gonna be in consideration as long as he’s clean.
I hate that the Cardinals have Pujols and who do we get up here with the Blue Jays to watch. Vernon Wells pop out or strike out
Alex Rios
@165 Cannon
Do you want me to break your legs……
That would suck…
These players with their 85-90 OPS+ are what we are all about up in Canada. What is Pujols at, like 207
@ Bucslim
You should do one for the top ten players in league history, that would be fun
@gabi319 (153): ok, this is the second time I’ve read in the comments about considering the ball park when *****yzing stats. Are they really that significantly different? How so?
The main difference is in the field dimensions. Interestingly, baseball is one of the few sports where field dimensions are not standardized. Mostly in terms of the outfield wall distance from home plate (infield base distances are set). Some are closer that others (there are min distance requirements, but that’s it). The “short porch” Jeremy mentions to in his post #116 refers to the Yankee Stadium right field wall being exceptionally close in, thus favoring lefty power hitters (i.e. Ruth). The famed “Green Monster” at Fenway is another example, where the wall is also close in, but in effort to compensate for it, they made the wall really high. The other consideration is the foul territory. Lots of older stadiums, in particular ones that doubled as football stadiums, had lots of space outside of the baselines before you got to the stands. Foul pop-ups into that area could be caught more often, whereas in todays smaller baseball-only parks, those balls go into the stands, extending the life of the guy at bat. Last thing I’ll mention – Coors field in Denver was notoriously a “hitter’s park” because of the higher altitude. Balls tended to fly out of there. Nowadays, I think they still do this – the game balls are stored in a humidifier so as to deaden them slightly in effort to compensate for that.
@170 Maggot
Yeah from what i know they still store the balls in a humidifier before games. Now the biggest bandbox (homerun park) is New Yankee stadium because of some wind flow problem i believe it is.
Well I’d have to crack the books on that one jeremy. That would be some good reading. Are you talking like career stats? That would lead to some interesting discussion, like the Bill James thing about career vs. peak value.
Bucslim
I was not talking about career stats, although they would have some of the best stats of course. I mean the top ten players in league history overal. There are plenty of lists out there already. I think most people have a top ten that consists of these players in some order.
Babe Ruth
Willie Mays
Lou Gehrig
Ty Cobb
Walter Johnson
Christy Mathewson
Cy Young
Joe Dimaggio
Barry Bonds (Shut up everyone haha)
Ted William
Rogers Hornsby
Mickey Mantle
Honus Wagner
Hank Aaron
I am sure i missed a few
I dont know, it is kind of a tough list to come up with, you would probably need a good deal of help haha. anyone would.
You also get into “new stats” alot of the players on this list never got to take advantage of sacrifice flies. Players not get an rbi and no official atbat, when players before just got an out and it counted against their average… Just another reason lists like these are so much fun. It makes for some very interesting discussions.
@Maggot (135): I agree that he is in the top five in many offensive categories from 1930. It doesn’t change the fact that there were hitters superior to him in the league that year. A proper *****ysis shouldn’t end with how many times a player appeared on certain leaderboards. Hack Wilson, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Babe Herman were all clearly better hitters that season. One could also make the case that Bill Terry had a better season. I also don’t appreciate the implication that I haven’t done research or that I don’t know what I’m talking about simply because you don’t agree with me.
I love baseball, GO REDS!!! too bad we cent stop getting injured this season…
@bucslim (158): I said I was an Astros fan – back in the day the Astrodome was probably the best ‘pitchers’ park in the National league.
Lol, got to love its replacement Enron, sorry Minute-Maid Park, with the hill and a flag-pole in dead center, all in fair territory!
Its interesting your jabs at steroids. With a little more research you will find that doping has been around since the late 19th century. A pitcher in the 1880′s used monkey testosterone to boost his game. Baseball players have always used performance enhancing drug. In the early days many used amphetamines to boost their game. Mickey Mantle had to sit out of a home run derby because of lesions developed from such use.
@z (175): Hack Wilson, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Babe Herman were all clearly better hitters that season. One could also make the case that Bill Terry had a better season.
Well I wouldn’t say “clearly”. But such is the fun of baseball and debating stats. Besides, you just threw Terry in there to keep Klein out of this subjective top 5 in order to win your point.
Yeah Terry batted for average, but is nowhere to be found in allot of the important run-producing categories, whereas Klein is definately top 5.
I also don’t appreciate the implication that I haven’t done research or that I don’t know what I’m talking about
Meh, I was just feeling feisty after my reply to that Tom guy. Sorry.
Babe Ruth would have hit more homeruns if he had a glossberry
Bucslim.
Mlb network just happened to put on a half hour special on greatest statistical seasons with 7 0r 8 of the exact same entries. granted two or different.
but still there is some poor schmoe who works on the MLB network who put in a lot of hardwork to put together a list so someone dude can rip it off and call it his own without even giving a mention.
i dont think thats cool, but whatever if you say its all one big coincidence i guess i really cant disprove it. besides your boyfriend Jeremy seems to believe you so i guess thats all that matters.