Christy Mathewson's ranked number 7 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players.

He is considered the greatest living Major League Baseball player, In 1999, the Sporting News came out with a list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players. Babe Ruth was first. Mays was second, making him the highest-ranking living player on the list.;

Lowell Reidenbaugh has written:

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'Take Me Out to the Ball Park'

The 5 greatest players in the history of Sporting Lisbon, were the players of possibly the greatest Sporting team of all time, the team in the 1950s of the "Cinco Violinos", translated it means the "Five Violins".