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Old 06-12-2021, 10:08 PM
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I'd nominate Clemente too.

Regarding the dead ball guys Sam Crawfords numbers are off the charts with an average of 17 a season, the games two best hitters? Cobb averaged 12.2 and Joe Jackson 14 a season.
Crawford's power was legendary. Bill James simulated his career as if it occurred 20 years later than it actually happened, in the lively ball era instead of the deadball one, and estimated that he would have hit 494 career HR. He was a beast.

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