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Originally Posted by Eric72
...that would have been one amazing outfield. Aaron, Mays, McCovey.
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I love how loaded that Giant team was. McCovey "Stretch" only played outfield because another HOFer, Orlando Cepeda had beaten him to the bigs by a year. Plus you had Marichal/Perry/McCormick (Cy winner)/Jack Sanford pitching. Those guys could just never get over the hump.
Re- Hank vs Willie. I'll never take anything away from Aaron, but he played several years in "the launching pad".. While Mays had to play over a decade in windy Candlestick, before they closed the stadium with an outfield upper deck. That era pre-dates me, but supposedly that '60's Stick was one of the toughest places to hit bombs. Mays, had he not lost virtually two years to military service, and had he played in a hitter friendly park, undoubtedly would have hit more than 700.. And likely passed Ruth first.