The Greatest Ten Baseball Players

10. Joe DiMaggio

Joe DiMaggio played 13 years in Major League Baseball and played his entire career for the New York Yankees. He was not only famous for his outstanding Baseball skills, but also married to Marilyn Monroe in 1954.

Hits: 2,214
Home runs: 361
Batting average: .325
Runs batted in: 1,537

9. Honus Wagner

Honus Wagner played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917 and almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wagner had an imense career and won his eighth (and final) batting title in 1911, which is a National League record that remains unbroken to this day.

Hits: 3,430
Home runs: 101
Batting average: .329
Runs batted in: 1,732

8. Stan Musial

Stan Musial played in Major League Baseball from 1941 to 1944 and from 1946 to 1963, playing for the St. Louis Cardinals. Stan Musial has an impressive total of 475 home runs and he was nicknamed Stan the Man.

Hits: 3,630
Home runs: 475
Batting average: .331
Runs batted in: 1,951

7. Hank Aaron 

Hank Aaron played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1954 through 1976. From those 23 seasons he played 21 seasons with the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves and two seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers. Hank Aaron is probably best known for the player who broke the long-standing MLB home run recordset by Babe Ruth. Hank Aaron was nicknamed “Hammerin’ Hank”.

Hits: 3,771
Home runs: 755
Batting average: .305
Runs batted in: 2,297

6. Ty Cobbs

Ty Cobbs played 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers in Major League Baseball from 1905 to 1921, the last six as the team’s player-manager. Cobbs finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1926. He nicknamed “The Georgia Peach” and when he retired in 1926 he was the holder of 90 major league records. Cobbs played in the same era as Babe Ruth and a lot of discussion took place who was the best player at the time.

Hits: 4,189
Home runs: 117
Batting average: .366
Runs batted in: 1,944

5. Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1907 to 1927 and was a right-handed pitcher for the Washington Senators. After active duty he served as manager of the Senators from 1929 through 1932 and of the Cleveland Indians from 1933 through 1935. He is the only pitcher in major league history to record over 400 wins and strike out over 3,500 batters.

Win–loss record: 417–279
Shutouts: 110
Managerial record: 529–432
Earned run average: 2.17

4. Ted Williams

He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960. During his career he was doing military service during World War II and the Korean War.

Hits: 2,654
Home runs: 521
Batting average: .344
Runs batted in: 1,839

3. Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball and played for two teams: for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1986 to 1992 and the San Francisco Giants from 1993 to 2007. Bonds is the record holder of the most home runs of all time.

Hits: 2,935
Home runs: 762
Batting average: .298
Runs batted in: 1,996

2. Willie Mays

Willie Mays played 22-season in Major League Baseball and nearly all seasons for the New York Giants/San Francisco Giants (1951–1952, 1954–1972) Only at the end of his career he switched to the New York Mets (1972–1973).

Hits: 3,283
Home runs: 660
Batting average: .302
Runs batted in: 1,903

1. Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth is most likely the best known baseball player of all time and for a reason. He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball, from 1914 through 1935. He hit 714 home runs and set a long-standing MLB record, only to be broken by Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds. Babe Ruth played for the Boston Red Sox (1914–1919), the New York Yankees (1920–1934) and the Boston Braves (1935).

Hits: 2,873
Home runs: 714
Batting average: 0,342
Runs batted in: 2,214