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Originally Posted by Robbie
No ground-breaking thought here... but could Ted Williams be the most underrated or under-appreciated player of all-time?
How many times has it been brought up that if not for his loss of time in baseball to serve our Country, he would have left the game with more home runs than Ruth, and better numbers than almost any other player that collectors hold in higher esteem? Ruth, Cobb, Hornsby, Gehrig...
And who talks about these guy's defense either?
Williams changed the game... in a different way than Ruth, but he absolutely did. He made a science out of hitting. He was the prototype of all the analysis of hitting you see today... the way batters and pitchers look at each other for every game. And all that Amazon AWS nonsense you see on every pitch today on TV... was going on in Ted Williams head 80 years ago!
Maybe that's why his son froze it???    Bad joke... sorry. |
I think Stan Musial is the most unappreciated player off all-time because the guy went to the ballpark had 1-3 hits went home to his wife and kids and never had a scandal and was happy all the time. Meant him once and he was friendly as your next door neighbor.