I saw the tail ends of both of their careers as a little kid and, in turn, I admire them both. Willie gets the edge for me because I'm a New Yorker and my mother adored him.
With Hank, I frequently think about the seven year contracts big free agents sign. His first free agent season would have been 1960, meaning he could have signed two successive seven year free agent contracts (ending after 1973) with approximately zero words ever being written by anybody about them being bad deals. To me, that's incredible.
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