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silentCalfan Wrote: Jul 11, 2012 3:08 AM
If Feller was so great how did Spahn and Sain both beat him in the 1948 series? Cleveland had the better team and won the series. Spahn did not have Feller's fastball, but he was a better pitcher than Feller.
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Paulus Textor Wrote: Jul 10, 2012 10:34 AM
Yup. If Feller had pitched for the Yankees, he would be almost as revered as Babe Ruth.
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MatthewlovesAyn Wrote: Jul 10, 2012 11:16 AM
Or reviled. I hate the Yankees, always have, always will. The fact that he was a Yankee is the only reason I don't like The Babe. Same for Gehrig and DiMaggio. Glad the Indians got to end Dimaggio's streak.
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Steve of CA Wrote: Jul 10, 2012 9:43 PM
I trust you are not entirely serious. As a kid and a Giants fan, I hated the Dodgers but later came to realize it is just a game and also just a business.
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Trying to choose the greatest pitcher of all time is at least as difficult as trying to choose the greatest hitter of all time. In both cases, the best we can do is narrow down the list.Outside a charmed circle of five batters, no one had both a higher lifetime batting average and a higher lifetime slugging average than any of those five. In alphabetical order, they are Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Rogers Hornsby, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams. There are other batters whose...
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