Every sport has its arguments over which player was the greatest, but no sport takes the debate as seriously as baseball does. It is a game informed by an obsession with statistics, such that passions are often checked by numbers: How could anyone love a player with such a miserable on-base percentage?

It is something consequential, then, when anyone makes a declarative statement regarding anything about baseball. But a team of statisticians did just that. They have spent years devising a definitive ranking of baseball's best performers, no matter what era or which team was involved. Their new method compared players across history by placing the respective achievements within the context of a given year's pool of eligible baseball talent.

The controversial answer: The Greatest of All T

See Full Page