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Old 11-16-2023, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth View Post
The 60s Giants had Mays, McCovey, Marichal, Perry, and lots of other solid players, and yet won only one pennant and no WS.
...AND Cepeda!

They brought up two future Hall-of-Famers in consecutive years and BOTH were first basemen...
had to scramble of that one...needed both...to not accomplish what they didn't accomplish.

KOUFAX was one of the main obstacles.


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