Robinson...
The one with a WAR over 100, with almost 3000 hits, and almost 600 home runs?
I think you guys are talking about the one with a WAR just over 60, with just over 1500 hits and just under 150 home runs....
Jackie was a gentleman (not that Frank wasn't), well educated, and the right man for Rickey's integration movement. Jackie went through hell. But that's not to say that Frank Robinson didn't. Frank about doubled the baseball results that Jackie did. They're both HOFers, but if one of them is gonna be in the inner circle I'd lean toward that being Frank.
Wagner, W Johnson, Cobb, Ruth, Gehrig, Hornsby, Mathewson, C Young, E Collins. Williams, Mays, Musial, Ott, Foxx, Spahn, Speaker, Lajoie, and Old Pete Alexander.
Tempting to add McGraw, he was everything. Much of it was long ago and not remembered.
Someone who gets no love in all of these comparisons is Eddie Collins. A third of his At Bats resulted in hits. Add for consideration 1499 walks. He was a hitting, walking, base stealing, run scoring, fielding machine. All time leader in sacrafice hits. He was a White Sox good guy when the Black Sox were throwing the World Series; more people would remember him if he'd been among the Black Sox.
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