Stengel was funny but wrong. Ruth is the greatest ever. Nobody is going to pick a singles hitter over the greatest homerun hitter of all time who also hit for average.
Honus Wagner is the greatest.
Yes, and he also was a great pitcher.
The fact of the matter is that Cobb, not Ruth, Wagner or Cy Young was the first inducted into the baseball HOF.
Best hitter: Aaron. Take away the 755 HR and he still has over 3000 hits. Best player: Mays.
Ruth was greatest home run hitter of all time? Steroids Bonds doesn’t count in my book but Aaron broke the Babe’s record.
A friend of mine’s Grandfather was buried at Forest Lawn. During the ceremony, his nephew kept turning around, from the grave site services, and looked behind him. When queried about it, he admitted he was transfixed by looking at Stengel’s final resting place :)