The Arena's Favorite Baseball Player Tournament - winner announced!

Babe Ruth 4, Greg Maddux 1

 

Ken Griffey Jr

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vs

Babe Ruth

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Junior!

 

junior for me too, my favorite player of all time.

 

Griffey

Hard decision, though.

 

griffey. never was that fond of babe.

 

Griffey.

 

Griffey Jr. Because of that video game I used to love on the super nintendo

 

Griffey

 

And in a clean sweep of the championship round, our winner is...

<h2>Ken Griffey, Jr</h2>

defeated Keiichi Yabu 6-1
defeated Randy Johnson 4-2
defeated Joe DiMaggio 4-1
defeated Reggie Jackson 4-0
defeated Ted Williams 4-3
defeated Willie Mays 3-2
defeated Babe Ruth 7-0 (!)

 

Easily my favorite baseball player of all time. Played his Super Nintendo game all the time when I was younger, and even copied his batting stance in my second year of tee-ball.

And unlike a couple of other childhood idols (Sosa and McGwire), he's clean. A great choice for this tourney.