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Posted By: Stephen Mitchell

Having read a good many of these posts I must admit my mind (for now) is changed. I now believe Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player of all time. It is hard to argue with Ruth's bold black marks in the baseball encyclopedias and his teams' collective finishes - not to mention his superiority on the mound.

I have a problem, however: thirty years ago I worked with author John McCallum to produce a card set promoting Mr. McCallum's latest book, TY COBB (Praeger Publishers). The title of the card set was "Ty Cobb - Baseball's Greatest Player". Chalk it up to youthful inexperience, but I still think Cobb may be considered a reasonably close second to The Babe.