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All-Time All-Stars

Buford14 Wrote: Jul 09, 2012 11:30 PM
Cappy has to be a nerd who could never get picked even to play right field. He played with the girls and their dolls. Some people just don't get it. I have many, many memories of playing baseball, sandlot and organized. Back in the day kids learned sporets,manship playing baseball. That was before all the trash talking and disrepect came into play. If a player hit a homer he would start running not stand there and watch the flight of the ball. Back in the day doing some such would get you a fast ball up and in on the next at bat. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, especially Bpb Gibson or Dizzy Dean, Juan Marichal and Nolan Ryan were a few you did not dare to show up. Musial, Williams, Aaron, Mays, Mantle etc. would rather hit their big...
Nothing is likely to get an argument started among sports fans faster than attempts to name the all-time greatest in any sport, or even the all-time greatest in a particular aspect of a sport. However, in baseball, we can at least narrow down the list of possibilities -- considerably, in fact -- when it comes to hitting.

Who was the all-time greatest hitter?

A lot depends on how much weight you give to batting average versus power hitting. But it would be hard to consider someone for the title of the all-time greatest hitter if someone else had both a higher lifetime batting...

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