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Old 01-23-2017, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by bravos4evr View Post
welllll.... that's sort of misleading tho isn't it? I don't think it's accurate to compare every person who had a single at bat with the HOF. What would the numbers look like if you limited to all players who were eligible for the HOF? (10 years of major league service) Because all players under that cutoff ALWAYS had a 0% chance of getting in barring some sort of mad career that ended in death or injury.(and was given a waiver by the HOF)

Well, at least I found a way to include Moonlight Graham.

...but the odds that any MLB player would be portrayed by Burt Lancaster are only half as long. (2 of 18,910)


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