[Archive]

Posted By: Bob Manning

Guys;

Best baseball player? No votes for Satchell Paige? Josh Gibson? Sure enough, the Babe changed the game, and was surely the best pitcher turned day-to-day player, and is my own choice too. But the players denied the opportunity to play (by the likes of Cap Anson, e.g.) deserve mention here. I've just re-read "Only the Ball was White," and would give just about anything for Satch, or Judy Johnson or Oscar Charleston or Cool Papa Bell to have been able to do what they did so well, in the majors. They may not any of them have been The Best, but some of them must have come close.

Bob