Baseball's Greatest Living Player...who is it?

[jason.1969]

I love Frank Robinson. He would never get a top two vote from me since he seems to lag behind Aaron and Mays in pretty much every category. I suspect his 586 HRs have been greatly devalued as a result of the steroid era.

[icollectDCsports]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

I love Frank Robinson. He would never get a top two vote from me since he seems to lag behind Aaron and Mays in pretty much every category. I suspect his 586 HRs have been greatly devalued as a result of the steroid era.

Yep. I'd put both Mays and Aaron above him but he's underrated, I suppose because his career was split between two teams and not in the big media markets.

[jason.1969]

Crazy to even think about the late 1950s with Mays, Aaron, Mantle, Clemente, and Robinson all roaming outfields more or less in their primes, guys like Musial, Snider, and Ted Williams still around, and the likes of Maris, Yaz, Brock, and Billy Williams just arriving or on the way.

As a kid in the late 70s, I looked at Parker, Foster, Rice, Winfield, Lynn, Jackson, etc. the same way. If you were trying to make a MLB all-star team with the three best outfielders, it was impossible to choose.

[7nohitter]

Don Mossi or Steve Balboni