Willie Mays: The Greatest Ballplayer of All-Time

I love baseball. It is the most beautiful game in the world to me. One of my favorite things about the game is the history and how that leads to great debate.

I can sit down with friends and talk for hours about any number of baseball topics, but the one topic we always seem to come back to is, "Who is the greatest player of all time?" In fact, one of the questions in every user profile asks you to decide between Babe Ruth and Willie Mays.

With all due respect to Joe DiMaggio, Hank Aaron, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, and a few others, the argument always seems to come down between Ruth and Mays.

Babe Ruth has become an icon almost bigger that the sport itself. He revolutionized the game and saved it after the Chicago Black Sox scandal of 1919. Ruth, along with a new set...

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