The Top 25

  1. Babe Ruth
  2. Honus Wagner
  3. Barry Bonds
  4. Willie Mays
  5. Ted Williams
  6. Ty Cobb
  7. Walter Johnson
  8. Mickey Mantle
  9. Hank Aaron
10. Stan Musial
11. Lefty Grove
12. Lou Gehrig
13. Rogers Hornsby
14. Roger Clemens
15. Cy Young
16. Tris Speaker
17. Mike Schmidt
18. Eddie Collins
19. Pete Alexander
20. Greg Maddux
21. Nap Lajoie
22. Frank Robinson
23. Christy Mathewson
24. Jimmie Foxx
25. Joe DiMaggio

Ruth Voted Ultimate Survivor
By Justin Kubatko

To the surprise of no one, Babe Ruth has been voted baseball's ultimate survivor, the best player in the history of Major League Baseball.

Ruth outlasted Honus Wagner in a clash of baseball titans. While Wagner's achievements impressed the jury, in the end Ruth's offensive dominance as well as his pitching ability proved to be too much to overcome.

While our final choice may have been obvious to many, it was the journey rather than the final destination that proved to be most enjoyable to all involved. Bill James may have put it best in the original Historical Baseball Abstract when he wrote:

"The problem is that if one does not wish to assert some particular point, but one wishes only to identify the greatest player who ever lived, one is drawn almost unavoidably to the conclusion that it was George Ruth."