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Originally Posted by packs
Contemporaries in the sense that they were in their primes at the same time. I would not say Gehrig and DiMaggio are contemporaries just because some seasons overlapped.
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1922-1935
1925-1941
They overlapped for 11 seasons. Vance's peak years were 1924-1931. Only one of them was Grove not in the Majors as a full time pitcher too. Grove's peak was 1926-1939; his peak began 2 years after Vance's, overlapped for 6 seasons, and then Grove had a long, productive career that Vance did not. Most of their best seasons overlap, and pretty much all of Vance's productive career except for one season.
Gehrig: 1923-1939
Dimaggio: 1936-1951
Grove started 3 years after Vance, Dimaggio 13 years after Gehrig.
There have to be better arguments than here than denying timelines which are easily available.