Have to agree with all the posters that they would all be top flight stars in today's game. I'm actually surprised that anyone would think otherwise. Can you imagine what Ruth, Gehrig, Crawford and Hornsby would do against expansion era pitching? Very good points made too about the top athletes all playing baseball back then, and how much stronger pitchers were then.
One point that should be made in fairness to the other side of the argument is that pre-war players were not competing against African American and Latin American players.
Greg
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