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Originally Posted by chaddurbin
i'm perfectly fine with the 1st hof class representing mt rushmore+1...ruth, cobb, wajo, matty, wagner. i'm biased toward the deadball era, but names like mays or aaron doesn't resonate the same as cobb or wagner when you think of the baseball game and its history.
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You rarely see Hornsby mentioned, yet he arguably had the greatest 5 year string of seasons of any player.
From 1921 through 1925, his season cumulative average almost .403 (including the modern record .424 season, and batting over .400 three times during that 5 year span), hitting almost 150 homers (average = 30 per year), 600 RBIs (average = 125 per years), and slugging about .700!