Babe Ruth, Right Field

He wasn't as vindictive as that Chicago billy goat — whose punishment of the Cubs has entered its second century — but eighty-six years still sting. Starting as a Red Sox pitcher (he went 89-46 in the regular season and 3-0 in the Series), he played the field between starts in his last two seasons before being sold to the Yankees and switching to the outfield full-time, in the process ensuring everything else in baseball takes a backseat to the Yankees-Sox rivalry. Decades after dying, he still drives opponents crazy, with Barry Bonds declaring, "I wiped him out. In the baseball world, everything is Babe Ruth right? I got his slugging percentage and I'll take his home runs and that's it, don't talk about him no more" and Pedro Martinez asserting he wanted to find Babe's ghost and "drill him in the ass."