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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
I don't normally subscribe to old school ways of interpreting the sport of baseball...but if Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron didn't get 100% of the vote...I'm not sure why I should care that Ichiro didn't get 100% of the vote.
Hell, Mantle was 43 votes short of a unanimous selection.
Rickey Henderson, who was worth almost 2 Ichiro's, via the WAR statistic, was left off of 28 ballots.
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Wow, completely agree with every word of this.
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