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Jeff Obermeyer... in this debate is that if you took one of the all-time greats and just transported them through time to today, they certainly would struggle against today's athletes.
However, take that same player and have him born in 1970. He would have grown up with the same emphasis on nutrition, training, surgical techniques, etc. I bet they would definately be one of the greats today too. Think about Mantle... with better nutrition and better surgery, he's knees wouldn't have been nearly as much as a problem for him.
I think that most of the all-time greats in baseball would have been so today as well if they had lived their entire lives in this era.
Jeff