Babe Ruth

iacute;nez is the only one currently awaiting the highest honor in baseball, as five (Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, Rogers Hornsby, and Lou Gehrig) are in the Hall of Fame, and Manny Ramirez and Todd Helton are still playing in the majors.  If Albert Pujols stays healthy, he should join the club in 2012.

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topped Bagwell’s Slugging Percentage; two have been linked to steroids, and the other three (Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Rogers Hornsby) are already in the Hall of Fame.

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract lists Bagwell as the fourth best first baseman of all time.  Albert Pujols may have passed him since the book’s release (2001), but Jeff Bagwell was one of the greatest position players of the nineties and will be rewarded with a one-way trip to Cooperstown in 2011.

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Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas officially announced their retirements this week, ending speculation that either one would attempt a comeback in 2010 after not appearing in a big league game last season.  Glavine was a great finesse pitcher of his generation, and Thomas was a premiere slugger of the nineties.

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