You can make a case that this guy is the best right handed pitcher of all time without any trouble at all.

Mean, hard-throwing, competitive as hell. If I had to pick a guy to start one must win game, it would be Gibson.

I have an idle fantasy that in an alternate universe, Ty Cobb digs in at the plate facing Gibson with a full head of steam.

Cobb taunts Gibson with racial epithets, who responds with some 90 mph chin music. Cobb gets up, refuses to dust himself off, and hurls more abuse at the mound.

I don't know what comes next, but it isn't pretty.