MARK'S BASEBALL COMEBACK

ALL-TIME 25 BEST HITTERS

MARK'S FIRST SHUTOUT

THE GREATEST PLAYER EVER

The greatest player who ever lived was Babe Ruth. His lifetime career statistics include a .342 batting average (#6 since 1900), .474 on base % (#2), .690 slugging % (#1), with 714 homers (#3), 2213 RBI (#2), 2174 runs (#3) and 2,062 walks (#3) resulting in his ranking as the #1 Hitter of All Time!

But there's more...Ruth was an excellent pitcher, before he became the greatest player ever. Ruth won 94 games as a pitcher with 67 wins before his 23rd birthday, before he started playing in the field in 1918, with a 2.28 career ERA and .671 career winning %. There is every reason to believe he would have been a 300+ game winner and Hall of Fame pitcher, had he continued to pitch. The Babe was a high average hitter, the best power hitter ever and a top pitcher, all of which combined clearly made him the best player ever.

JOE JACKSON FOR THE HALL OF FAME

Joe Jackson deserves his place in the Hall of Fame. His .356 career batting is the 3rd best ever. As for the $5,000 from the Black Sox 1919 World Series, he batted .375 (the best on either team) and made no errors in the field. He was given/thrown the $5,000 by a teammate then he tried to give it to the White Sox Team Owner - Charles Comiskey, who would not see Jackson. Jackson put the money in the bank, used it to help other people and never spent it on himself.