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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide
I place more value on the players who were drug free over the roid-ragers.
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I do, too, but when the roid-rager posts numbers that completely blow away the drug-free guy, it's hard to say the drug-free guy is a HOFer (esp. when the roid-rager was probably not even top-10 of his era.)
If you take Maris' freak season away, he was, well, a very good player. That does not make for a HOFer (just as Don Newcombe.)
BUT, that's the fun of this debate. I would like to see some guys in who you would think crazy, too. (Buck O'Neil, Mickey Vernon, Minne Minoso, Cecil Travis at least deserve serious consideration, in my mind.)
Ken