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Originally Posted by robw1959
This has the ring of truth, as do the other members' comments. Even though playing in a smaller market and never winning a WS hasn't hurt Cobb's value, It does seem to have hurt most everyone else to some extent, especially Musial and Williams, I think. Musial was on par with Dimaggio, and Ted Williams was a way better hitter.
I never heard anything negative about Ted's fielding skills before, so that is a bit of a revelation to me, and, of course, could contribute to holding down the value of his cards as well.
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Ted was very self deprecating about his fielding but he wasn't all that bad.
He used to joke that Dom DiMaggio belonged in the HOF as the only player who played LF and CF every game.