Thanks Danny. That is exactly the kind of insight I am looking for, even though I realize it is only an opinion. But it is an informed opinion. Thanks! I think it is a bit difficult for us to be able to determine whether or not certain players that retired 100 years ago were the absolute best players of their generation or any generation (which is what a HOF'er should be). Maybe at the time they retired they were among the best in the short history of the game. But the intervening 100 years of better players shows that in the grand scheme, some were only solid players, but not HOF's. Maybe that's why no one (save forum members) has ever heard of Harry Hooper or Roger Bresnahan.
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