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Posted By: Rhys

People look at Chase differently now than they probably did back in the day. You hear stories that other players hated him (He hit on teammates wives for example), that he was crooked, dishonest, did not work hard, was a extremely arrogant and pretty much not a very good guy. While people tend to idolize the early baseball crooks and scumbags who have an interesting story (Black Sox, Banned Players etc) you have to understand that in his own day Chase was a shady character and many people simply did not like him despite his charisma which could account for the lack of signed material. Nobody would doubt his "potential" but people knew what he stood for and what he was about and he rubbed a lot of players and fans the wrong way.

Rhys

Please note the one exception is Ty Cobb. People love to hate Cobb but overlook the glaring faults of other characters in Baseball History.