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If not, then who you got?
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Anthony K. said:Ted. Williams.
Bat .400, then come talk to me.
+2Anthony K. said:Ted. Williams.
Bat .400, then come talk to me.
+3darocker80 said:+2Anthony K. said:Ted. Williams.
Bat .400, then come talk to me.
nice pullcgilmo said:my vote
is ted
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I disagree with you on Pete Rose but I'll let it slide.wolfmanalfredo said:He may be in the top 10 someday, but my top 2 are Pete Rose & Ted Williams in no particular order.
He was right behind Eugenio Velez for me.LLWesMan said:Not sure how Rich Aurilia hasn't been mentioned yet...
card-treasury said:To hit .400 today...
To set the world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter races...
To set the world record with 8 Olympic Gold Medals.
To have 300+ pound offensive linemen...on average!
To have 6'2" and 230-plus-lb. people in the NFL running a 4.3 sec. 40-yard dash.
To have a 23 year-old kid at 6'8", 260-plus lbs. with 11,000 NBA points (only 30 players in league history have ever eclipsed the 20,000 point plateau).
To have designer drugs widely available, and bounds ahead of any detection mechanisms.
To have international talent pools readily available in every sport.
To have sports stars making more money than almost anyone else in society...resulting in children whose parents breed them from day one to be pro athletes...to far advanced training and betterment sports science & technology...to 6'8" and 240-pound NHL hockey players...to the difference in time (era) methodologies for relief pitchers being so vastly constrasted as to compare the words novelty and strategy...
To see a .334 career batting average today (Ted's was .344 against those guys).
To see a career OBS of .425 in the majors when scouts get excited over a kid in A ball that comes close to .400.
To visualize Albert Pujols, who faces these modern athletes every day, facing the sorry competition (not even African-Americans played) that existed in the major leagues during the 1940's-and-50's...indeed priceless.
It's no wonder why Tony LaRussa, who played in the 60's-and-70's labeled him, King Pujols.
Press on!
boxbreaker44 said:He was right behind Eugenio Velez for me.LLWesMan said:Not sure how Rich Aurilia hasn't been mentioned yet...