The greatest player in the history of Major League Baseball sat in the ramshackle shed of the visitors’ clubhouse in venerable Crosley Field in Cincinnati. (Photo: Getty Images)
Jerry Green of The Detroit News makes the case that Roberto Clemente, not Willie Mays, Cobb or Ruth should be considered the greatest baseball player of all time. He suggests the relative isolation of the time in comparison to the media coverage of Mays and other sports figures kept this consideration quiet.
Who do you think is the greatest baseball player of all time?
“The greatest player in the history of Major League Baseball sat in the ramshackle shed of the visitors’ clubhouse in venerable Crosley Field in Cincinnati. He fidgeted and twisted his neck and his shoulders, an athlete in perpetual motion. He was attended by a trainer who massaged his shoulders and an interpreter to translate back and forth between English and Spanish.
Roberto Clemente might not have been the perfect baseball player. But no other player in the game’s 140 seasons has been closer to perfection.”
Source: Green: Clemente, not Mays, deserves title of greatest
