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jay behrensHit .403 slugged .690 had 615 Runs, 1078 hits, 206 2B, 66 3B, 144 HR (this done when almost no other than Ruth was hitting more than 20 HRs a year) 691 RBI, 43 SB. The only catagories Bonds beats Hornsby is OBP, SLG and HR. If you do HRs relative to the league, Hornsby walks away with this. SB are essentially a tie with Bonds having 46.
You can deride BA all you want. I'll be the first to admit it's not a great measure of a player being able to anything outside of hitting the ball, but hitting .400 is still .400. Doing it for a season is a great accomplishment. Doing for 5 years is something even Cobb never did. I really doubt we will see another player give 40-.400 serious run in our lifetime. It's was 80 years before Bonds got even a glimmer of it.
I would put Bonds #2, but you can't compete with hitting .400 and averaging almost 30 HRs a year for 5 years, especially in an era when HRs were still sparse.
Jay
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