The mighty Hank Aaron goes one better, saying that if Satch had been a Major Leaguer from the start “he might have won 300 games with his outfielders sitting down.” Historian Bill James ranks Satchel seventeenth on his list of the hundred greatest baseball players of all time, six spots ahead of Cy Young. “Satchel deserves to rank, with Cy Young, Lefty Grove, and Walter Johnson, as the guys that you talk about when you’re trying to figure out who was the greatest [pitcher] that ever lived,” argues James. Journalists Mark McGuire and Michael Sean Gormley place Satchel at thirty-three in their
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