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Posted By: jay behrens

Andrew, I agree that Sisler isn't a top 10 hitter, but his OBA is right in line with all the other .400 hitters of the 20c. Almost everyone is between .460-.500. Terry is the worst at .452 and Williams the best .553. Hornsby was the only other player to have an OBA over .500 when they hit .400.

I also agree with Andrew that there are far too many players on the list from 1920-30. The introduction of a new ball and changing it out often during the course of the along with the spitball being outlawed, gave hitters a huge advantage. It took pitchers a long time to catch up.

I also don't buy the contention of dilution of talent in the modern game. If this were true, then the truely great players should be putting even better numbers than the players when talent was susposed to be so much better. In a nutshell, the worst player today, would be a good player in the deadball era and the worst deadball era players wouldn't get out of the low minor leagues today. I won't go into detail on this since it been covered here before and be found if you do a search.

Jay

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