text: who do you think is the best all time baseball player ever, one for the ages? you can have the arogant bonds in there, but my personal opinion he don't rank very high the greatest baseball player of all time is the immortal sultan of swat, the mighty bambino babe ruth.  714 homeruns in 2503 games .342 lifetime batting average .690 lifetime slugging average 15 world series homeruns and 94 lifetime victories as a pitcher.  i'll stack those numbers against anyone.