Aaron or Mays?

[jchcollins]

Willie and Hank were both retired by the time I was born, so my opinions are purely based as a card collector who came to know about them and the game in the mid to late 1980's. When I was a kid, I kind of viewed them the same to be honest. I thought they went together. Yes, Aaron had the HR record, but Willie wasn't that far being him. Hank went with Willie kind of like Musial was mentioned alongside Williams, etc. etc. Maybe I'm the only one who did that, but I still think of them that way. Time has been kinder to Willie I think in judging him repeatedly in multiple places as "the greatest position player of all time". When the Sporting News came out with the greatest 100 players of all time at the end of the 1990's, Willie was #2 next to Ruth, and Aaron if memory serves was #5. As a kid collecting cards I was more into Aaron personally - but they have always been held in virtually the same esteem in my eyes since I found out who they were as probably a 10 or 11 year-old.


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[jason.1969]

Around that same age, I had a lot of twins and triplets. The sabermetricians out there would now shoot holes in many of these, but mine were--

Aaron/Mays/FRobby/Mantle

Foxx/Greenberg

Simmons/Klein

Banks/Mathews/Killebrew

Kaline/Clemente

DiMaggio/Musial