Competition, Survival, and the Emergence of More Powerful Forces
I was right on time.
—Buck O’Neil
In the new Bill James’ Historical Baseball Abstract, historian James does perhaps the most thoughtful, thorough, and inclusive list of the Top 100 baseball players of all time. He considers all professional baseball players since the organized game began in the 1870s. Many teams who won a World Series title are not represented on the list by any players. The best-represented team is not the Yankees, Cardinals, Dodgers, Reds, or A’s, or a major league team of any era—but by a team near Pittsburgh not named the Pirates. The players ranked 4th, 9th, 17th, 52nd, 65th, 76th, 86th, and 95th were all on the 17-man roster of the Homestead Grays ...
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