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Posted By: boxingcardman

The greats of every era would excel if warped into the future. Give the players of the deadball era clean baseballs, no spitters, clear hitting backgrounds, modern medicine and training, and comfortable first class travel arrangements and they will rise to the occasion.

The fastest I can recall being clocked was Nolan Ryan at over 106; I believe it is on the back of his 1975 Topps card and they wouldn't lie to kids...would they?

The story about Cobb is not from Cobb, it is a joke that Lefty O'Doul tells in The Glory of Their Times. He was asked in the 1950s about how Cobb would do today and he said about the same as Mays. When asked how come Cobb was so good when he would only do as well as Mays, Lefty responded that you have to remember that Cobb's about 70.

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