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jay behrenssteve said:
"But a baseball All Star team from back then would consistently crush any All Star team of today in a seven game series."
I really hope you aren't serious. Pitchers may have mostly been finess pitchers back in the day, but all it takes is one mistake for todays players to take advantage of those mistakes. Unlike back then when you could get away with that mistake because most players did not have the ability to take you out of the park on every pitch and make you pay dearly for that mistake. And a claim for better defensive play back then has no standing as almost all postive defensive records have been set in the past 25 years.
If the match up was 'old timers' versus current players, both playing at the peak physical condition for their era, the modern players would crush the old timers, plain and simple. I don't care how great Cobb, Wagner, Ruth et al were. Having never stared at a steady diet of 100mph fast balls, they would spend a few games adjsuting to hitting that pitch. Give the old timers the same training, etc as modern players and who knows who would win.
Jay