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Originally Posted by packs
Ah yes you are right. I should have said National League.
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Actually, at the year 1929, when Doyle played his last season, was Rogers Hornsby's last good hitting season. His numbers dropped significantly after that year, possibly because he became a player manager. (or not?) If you look at who had betters numbers when Doyle retired, than Hornsby clearly appears to be the better.
If you're going to go by best retired second baseman, fine. But If we take to time to look through the stats you can see pretty clearly that Hornsby had much better numbers. Numbers don't mean everything, but unless one of us saw or really knows about Hornsby and Doyle, we have to go by the numbers and that pretty much decides the best second baseman to ever play in the National League in 1929.