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10-13-2023, 05:01 PM
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I guess I don’t see Ozzie getting more hobby love than those guys. His RC goes for a bit of a premium in high grade but that’s because the card is almost impossible to find centered / untitled. Other than that, his cards don’t really sell for much.
Hard to compare to Schmidt or Sandberg since their careers are staggered at different times of vintage availability. Schmidt’s RC suffers from being ugly and shared with two other guys. Sandberg’s RC is basically junk wax and can be benchmarked against Boggs and Gwynn where it performs pretty well especially given that his career was the least impressive among the three. Ozzie was beloved. He had that winning personality. He did that flip when he came out on the field, played in a baseball town, hit a famous home run. So he has all that going for him. Just some random musings. 
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10-13-2023, 07:12 PM
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Just YouTube Ozzie Smith defensive highlights and you will see why.
I'm not sure of the analytic stat... I think it is something like "Defensive Runs Saved".... But Ozzie Smith by that statistic is the greatest defensive player in history. He is still beloved in St Louis and a super nice guy.
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10-13-2023, 07:20 PM
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Also, Baseball Reference "Defensive WAR", Ozzie Smith is the best of all time.
The list goes like this. Number 1 Ozzie Smith. Number 2 Mark Belanger. Number 3 Brooks Robinson. Number 4 is Cal Ripken Jr. Number 5 is Joe Tinker. Number 6 is Luis Aparicio. Number 7 is Rabbit Moranville. Number 8 is Pudge Rodriguez. Number 9 is Omar Viquel. Number 10 is Bobby Wallace. By the way. Number 14 is Yadier Molina. As a Cardinals fan I just wanted to throw that in.
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10-13-2023, 07:59 PM
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Ozzie was a lot of fun to watch. I'm not surprised at all to hear he's popular in the hobby. Probably the greatest defensive player of all time.
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