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identify7I am not of the school which thinks ... if we only had just a little more data ... we could generate correction factors which would clear everything up.
I believe that many things are already over analyzed and fully misunderstood.
Why is it not possible that Wagner was a very popular and very accomplished baseball player? His popularity results in him being favorably compared to those of perhaps slightly greater talent.
There are other players whose talent alone do not justify the pricing for their cards. Of course, the most obvious of these is Mantle.
Heck, you can manipulate analyses plenty, but a forty point BA difference is a bit to overcome.