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Jeff LichtmanThe irony of course is that Rice never cared how he was perceived and Kirby was all about being media-savvy -- and it ends up that he was probably a much worse guy than Rice was.
When I think of the 70s, I think of Jim Rice, Steve Garvey, guys like that. It doesn't seem fair to penalize guys like this who were consistently at the very top of their era just because they weren't around during the juiced ball times. To be fair, a HOF player should be judged on how they performed relative to their peers during their playing career. At least with Rice, both he and Williams had lifetime slugging percentages that were about 100 points higher than the average player in the league during their respective eras. Puckett's was .67 higher....