Best Pure Hitter

Who in baseball history is your choice for best pure hitter. Homeruns and RBI's are nice but if the bases are loaded and you need to send up a batter in the bottom of the ninth down 1 who is it?

 

gotta be tony gwynn,sweetest swing i have ever seen

 

Gwynn and Williams are SO close its hard to call, but I have to say Williams... in my opinion while Gywnn was playing he consistently faced better pitchers than Williams did... and I know Williams faced som of the greats, but I think Gwynn had a tougher pitching lineup over his years.

 

I think Williams is better than Gwynn, just because he had more power....but they're all great hitters, so I'm going to go with Cobb, because you know he has one factor the rest of them don't...he's utterly ruthless.

 

ty cobb, loved the way he played....balls to the wall every single play. read a story about him being attacked in chicago by three guys and getting stabbed......later that day he went 2-4.

 

I'm sure there were better but not many looked better swinging the bat than Don Mattingly.

 

William Robert Hamilton--you can call him Bill or Bob. He was more noted for his base stealing (7 in one game) but if you figured his ability to get on base then he actually reached base in more games than he played in. He is in the Hall of Fame.

 

There are just too many to list.

Ted Williams and Roger Maris pop to the front of my mind....That was when baseball was still pretty pure.

Mattingly was fun to watch, Tino Martinez from 96 til 2000 was always fun to watch swing. It goes on and on and on.

 

I hope you are saying Maris had a sweet swing, because he is definatly no where near the best pure hitter in any league. Lifetime batting average of .260, doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Ted Williams or Ty Cobb.

 

roger maris?