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Posted By: jay behrens

I've never seen Vail's book, but jsut looking at the players you've listed and their rankings, it would seem that you are rewarded for hanging around regardless of how well you actually performed. Palmer and James have ways measuring career value that penalize players that hang around to accumulate stats.

The greatness of a player also goes beyond the numbers. Puckett is one of those rare players, that aside from being an outstanding player, also provided true leadership and other intangibles that is rarely found in other players.

How many of you can honestly say they would rather have another player in CF other than Puckett during his playing days? That's the measure of HOFer.

Jay