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10-05-2014, 10:11 PM
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I gotta watch that. Peter puts it well up above. The guy's numbers are just cartoonishly great. That string of .400+ OBP and .600 slugging is bananas. The guy goes to war, comes back, and at age 35 leads the league in bombs again. What a pimp.
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10-05-2014, 10:22 PM
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I don't care what era he played in, or who his teammates were. Those RBI numbers are ridiculous. I understand that the RBI statistic has lost some of its luster (much like average. I think both are now undervalued metrics). But if you're driving in 150 + runs, you're money. Credit goes to the guys who get on base to make that possible, but you don't luck into a 150 + RBI season. And Greenberg averaged 148 RBI per 162 games for his career.
Look at his RAA total for his best 7 seasons: 365. His average for those 7 seasons is over 52. That's simply spectacular.
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10-05-2014, 10:28 PM
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Greenberg
Akiva Kemper's documentary is great, as are several of the biographies written about Hank (Ira Berkow's stands out for me). While this isn't pre-war, I did buy this today at the local card show. On the back is handwritten "Hank Greenberg Tokyo May 1958". He looks like he still could have hit 58 homeruns.
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