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Hall of Merit— A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best
Sunday, October 21, 2007
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1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: October 21, 2007 at 08:03 PM (#2586441)All-time placement: I concur with behind Sam Crawford and ahead of Clemente. I also have Raines ahead of Gwynn.
And many others, it appeared.
It would be churlish to complain about career length when the guy still could rake at 41 years old. But at his career's end, his weight issues had to have been taking a toll somehow.
He was one of the first hitters that I remember making extensive use of video to aid his swing.
Gwynn an easy #2 in 2007. Nowhere near Cal Ripken, but ahead of McGwire and the backlog.
It would be great to have a 2007-08 version of that book to find out how widespread the changes since the early 80s are.
1. Ruth
(big gap)
2. Aaron
(medium gap)
3. Fr. Robinson
4. Ott
(medium gap, but the following are veeery close)
5. Reggie
6. Kaline
7. Gwynn
8. Crawford
9. Waner
10. Clemente
11. Heilmann
(smaller gap, but a gap)
12. Cravath
13. Winfield
14. Slaughter
15. Sam Thompson
(small hall in/out line, though not that much of a gap really)
16. King Kelly
17. Klein
18. Oliva
19. Flick
20. Parker
21. Reggie Smith
22. Dwight Evans
23. Keeler
(big hall in/out line)
Gwynn is in really really good company.
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