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Frank WakefieldRob D, since I've read Puddin' Head Wilson, I like his logic, to which you refer... but I'm not sure you knew that you were.
Still, I pick Wagner.
Having said that, if we dug up and revived these antiquated deadball ballplayers, and accepting that they might have a deadball bias against the home run, and therefore against Ruth (although I don't consider Simmons or Sisler deadball era players), I think if we asked them today, 60% of them vote for Cobb. I'd still choose Wagner. But I'd think those guys like Connie Mack would be more authoritative than we happy few here. Yet it reassures me that most of the folks here think differently than those guys did in 1942. For me, I think Walter Johnson would be a better judge of who was the 'best player'.
Maybe I drop the Greatwake moniker, and change it to The Spoon. Since I seem to occasionally stir things a bit.