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Posted By: identify7

Regarding Williams and Ruth having a higher OBP than that of McGraw: some think that HRs should be backed out of the computation, and getting on base due to errors, HBP, etc. should be included.

If this approach is used, McGraw has the highest OBP, if not, McGraw is third behind Williams and Ruth - not so bad for a player from back when " ... people didn't know that back in 1910. AVG was the only thing they were thinking about. So can we blame a player for purposely increasing his AVG at the detriment of SLG and OBP?"