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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Part of it may be that he didn't hit a lot of home runs. And unlike other positions where the great players from the 50s on back seem to retain their hobby preeminence (look at any ATG list), a number of catchers seemed to supplant Yogi -- Bench in particular, but also Piazza and maybe Carter and Fisk.
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Amazingly, Yogi doesn't have any black ink on his entire career batting record. And anyway, nobody wants to be a top catcher any more, there are too many of them.