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Originally Posted by rats60
Clemente played in the most difficult stadium to hit home runs in for most of his career. Aaron played in the easiest stadium to hit home runs for half his career and still needed the Braves to move the fences in to help him. I would put Aaron at 1b on teams after Stan Musial retired, but I would never put him in RF.
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Does that really explain 750 HR vs. 240? Come on now. Or 2300 RBI vs. 1300? Aaron was a much greater slugger, there can be no serious dispute.
BTW Aaron hit something like 370 HR on the road -- 50 percent more than Clemente's total output.
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Last edited by Peter_Spaeth; 09-20-2021 at 02:31 PM.
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