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Posted By: Rhys

The best comparison to Mike Donlin you will find is Bill Lange. He was considered possibly the best player in baseball in the mid-late 19th century as he could run and field better than a few of the other big names. If you saw something from 1898 that said he was the best player in baseball it would seem weird to us today, but it made sense to those that watched him at the time.

Another example is that Ed Barrow during his tenure as Yankees GM while overseeing both Ruth and Gehrig on a daily basis told people openly that the best baseball player he ever saw was Louis Sockalexis. If anyone tried to justify that with simple statistics it wouldn't make a bit of sense.

Rhys Yeakley