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Posted By: Jay Miller

At the Ft Washington show this weekend I had the pleasure of spending some time talking to Derek Grady. One of the things that we talked about for a while was where Joe Jackson ranks on the all time list of great hitters. I was looking on baseball reference.com today where they statistically analyze hitters and here is their ranking:

First, their top 10 are Cobb, Musial, Ruth, Aaron, Mays, Bonds, Gehrig, Hornsby, Williams and Foxx. Where do they rank Jackson--#108 behind Yaz, I-Rod, Rickey Henderson and such 19th century stars as Delahanty, Anson, Brouthers, Thompson, Hamilton and Duffy.

What do you people think of this? I've always thought of Jackson as Wade Boggs with better hair but questionable morality. This site ranks Boggs much higher so maybe I was overranking Shoeless Joe.