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Originally Posted by Edward
Dimaggio lent far more to team chemistry. Baseball is a team sport. Teams have stats. Williams if it was golf.
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David Halberstam wrote a great book called "Teammates" that talks about the friendship between Ted, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr. If Ted was so bad for team chemistry, I don't think anyone would have wrote a book about his friendships with teammates.
Here's an amazing stat of Ted's that some people don't know. He holds the record for consecutive games reaching base by walk, hit or hit by pitch at 84 games. Every game, 84 straight games, Ted reached base. To me, that's incredible.
I'll take Ted all day long.