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Posted By: identify7

Glenn: I hope I am not alone here, but even if I am, I have no idea what your arguement is.

You talk about humans, the decimal systen, qualitative values? Heck, to me batting average is a quantitative number, isn't it?

And I may be a bit simplistic, but the way I see it is ---> when you come up to bat, if you get a hit, you have been successful, if you don't, then maybe there is an alibi, such as a walk, got hit by the pitch, advanced a runner, or some other excuse, but you are supposed to get a hit.

Now Hornsby did just that for years, and years, and years, etc. Way more than anyone else. Isn't that good?

Well qualitatively, if I am right, you are supposed to do that. And quantitatively he did it more than anybody else. So yes, that is good.

Anybody else ever do that? No. So who is the daddy?

Edited to add: unnecessary commas and an apostrophe'