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Old 12-05-2011, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by murphusa View Post

I can even say Ripkin is also in that group. Yeah I know a million AllStar games etc except he was the best player on a bad team most years and his streak hurt the team
Sacrilege!!! You must not have been watching t.v. on the day he broke Gehrig's 'games played' streak - they drove him around the baseball field in a golf cart, to thunderous applause. It was almost as great as HR derby.

We really need a 'Hall of Above Average'. It could be the triple A of the HOF.
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