O/T 2026 HOF Contemporary Ballot

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Originally Posted by packs

I don’t see anything about Gwynn’s last seasons that suggests any PEDs. What do you see? He hit 17 homers in 1997 but the pitching was also pretty terrible. The average ERA for the NL that season was 4.20. In 1998 the average NL went up a little more too. Gwynn was the elite of the elite with a bat in his hands playing against expansion teams.

Tony was elite from age 22-32. Then for the next 5 years 33-37 he became the elite of the elite player many think of. Are there any other elite players that had by far their best 5 year stretch form 33-37 not named Tony Gwynn?