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Originally Posted by packs
This is a sincere question for the Anson people:
King Kelly's career overlaps almost entirely with Cap Anson. Did baseball need Cap Anson while it also had King Kelly?
I'm not buying into this idea that Anson was unusually important to the sport's early popularity. I think King Kelly was doing the exact same thing at the exact same time and was probably far more famous while he was alive.
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But was he the inspiration for Casey at the Bat?