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Frank WakefieldNo, John. I meant just plain old best.
Read The Glory of Their Times. Read Baseball When the Grass was Real. The guys that played with Ruth and Cobb and Gehrig... they thought Wagner was the best ballplayer ever.
I didn't see any of them play. But I'd like to think I can believe the players who played with all of them. Today, we look at stats, play computer and dice ball games, and we buy into Ruth being the best. I used to think Cobb was the best, just barely better than the Babe. But the more and more I read of the old, contemporary perceptions, it became obvious that Wagner was the man.