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Originally Posted by bravos4evr
The latter half of his career he missed a lot of games to injury too.
Not to mention that RBI's are pretty contingent on how good the people are on getting on in front of you, and if there is another power guy hitting in front of you taking a lot of of the RBI's with homers and not being on the basepaths for you.
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I have a feeling that the Yankees of the 50s and first half of the 60s were pretty good at getting on base. As for the latter point, Gehrig still managed to have a few RBIs
despite hitting behind Ruth, so I am not buying it. Even when Maris hit 61, he was still probably on base another 140 times.
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