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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Anson was far and away better than Kelly. Kelly had some decent years from 1884-1890, he was never Ansons equal. He benefitted partly from being a dapper guy, also from dying at the age of 36. I also believe that the timing of his career is part of what makes him so famous to us today. He was most popular during the 1887-90 hey-day of baseball card sets, of which he has a card in nearly all of them. There are other players that had short careers in diffent decades that people know very little of due to their lack of memorabilia, like Bill Lange. He gave up baseball for a girl, in the middle of what would have been a brilliant career (check out his stats-they are unreal). He didn't die at a young age and gain notoiety by it like Kelly, and Joss.
-Rhett

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