Babe Ruth is responsible for taking the term swinging for the fences to another level, his power numbers are absurd until this day and were even more so for the era that he played. However, that doesn’t mean there weren’t sluggers before his time — the threshold and expectation was simply different.
The next player to join our all-time team of complementary greats is a bit of an outlier within our squad’s selections.
Unlike Bill Skowron and Bob Meusel, who were integral parts and did most of their damage with the Yankees, this player had a Hall of Fame career with another team and experienced a decline with the Yankees.