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Top 10 poll: #8 player ever

Who is the #8 player in baseball history?

  • Christy Mathewson

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ken Griffey Jr

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tris Speaker

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Frank Robinson

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tom Seaver

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Greg Maddux

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mariano Rivera

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Satchel Paige

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Johnny Bench

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Joe Morgan

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Josh Gibson

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Bob Gibson

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tim Raines

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Frank Thomas

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Rod Carew

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Dale Murphy

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Billy Williams

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tony Gwynn

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Dennis Eckersley

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other (name in comments)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    35
  • Poll closed .

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Because nobody asked, here are the careers for each player that has been ranked already:
1) Babe Ruth (1914-1935)
2) Willie Mays (1948-1973)
3) Ted Williams (1939-1960)
4) Barry Bonds (1986-2007)
5) Hank Aaron (1954-1976)
6) Ty Cobb (1905-1928)
7) Lou Gehrig (1923-1939)

As for overlap? Here is many of these players were active in the following time periods:
1876-1904 - 0
1905-1913 - 1
1914-1922 - 2
1923-1928 - 3
1929-1935 - 2
1936-1938 - 1
1939 - 2
1940-1947 - 1
1948-1953 - 2
1954-1960 - 3
1961-1973 - 2
1974-1976 - 1
1977-1985 - 0
1986-2007 - 1
2007-2024 - 0
77-85? That's Mike Schmidts music...
 

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Poll closes tomorrow AM.

As it sits now, Johnson, Mantle, Hornsby, Musial and Young will all be advancing.
 
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