Bonds voted to All Star team

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Originally Posted by Ferdinand

I'm not exactly sure what you mean but Cobb only missed hitting .300 his rookie year and he played in the dead ball era with misshappen baseball covered with spit and substances. He also sounds like the single most exciting player to watch ever in baseball.

The fact he was the very first into the basball hall of fame, even with more votes then Ruth, should say something.

Cobb while was great player (probably in the top 5 all time)he was nowhere near as dominant as Babe. As a matter of fact Tris Speaker's numbers while not quite as good as Cobbs were in the same ballpark with him

Cobb's averages over 24 seasons
120 runs 224 hits 39 2bs 16 3bs 6 hrs 103 rbis 48 sbs .366avg .433 obp .512 slg

Tris Speakers averages over 22 seasons in the same era
109 runs 204 hits 46 2bs 13 3bs 7hrs 90 rbis 25 sbs .345avg .428 obp .500 slg


While Cobb has the better numbers he isn't that far superior to Speaker who was also known as the best fielding outfielder of the turn of the century players.