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Posted By: davidcycleback

It's always interesting how unlikable players from today are disliked, yet dark people from the past (Hoss Radbourne, Ty Cobb) are fan favorites. Perhaps overtime, dead players become like fictional charectors and you'd rather read a novel about Al Capone than than Florence Nightingale. If you read about some of the Old West bandits, you'll see that some of them were nothing more than serial murderers. It's only with time that they would be romanticized as they are.

I'm not immune to this, as my all time favorite players are Robin Yount (modern, nice & quiet) and Ty Cobb (vintage).