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    Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Hamerin' Hank passes away. In my opinion still the home run king. Sorry to all the Bonds fans.

    https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/bra...C2KRNX2KBKIEM/

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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog Tom View Post
    Hamerin' Hank passes away. In my opinion still the home run king. Sorry to all the Bonds fans.

    https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/bra...C2KRNX2KBKIEM/
    That hurts - I grew up a Braves fan (after his time), but I always admired him.

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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by sportdawg View Post
    That hurts - I grew up a Braves fan (after his time), but I always admired him.
    Class individual, no showboating, hard to believe he only weighed 180 pounds. I caught the end of his career. Had one of his baseball cards.

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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog Tom View Post
    Class individual, no showboating, hard to believe he only weighed 180 pounds. I caught the end of his career. Had one of his baseball cards.
    Forearms and wrist action. Nobody else has ever been able to do what he did.

    Maybe the best ever? IDK, but I'd pick one of these...

    Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, or Pete Rose.

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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    As a pure hitter I would add Tony Gwynn in with those guys even though he didn't have their power.

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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Roberto Clemente could flat out play.

    Agreed about Tony Gwynn being a great hitter, as were Rod Carew and George Brett.

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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    Roberto Clemente could flat out play.

    Agreed about Tony Gwynn being a great hitter, as were Rod Carew and George Brett.
    Clemente might have been the most complete all around player ever -

    Unfortunately he was lost to us before he reached his prime

    The period from the late 60's through the entire 70's into the early 80's might have been the Golden Era talent wise for pure baseball talent - especially overall American talent (North and South)

    This was before the NBA & NFL started siphoning off the best African American talent to their respective sports
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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog Tom View Post
    Hamerin' Hank passes away. In my opinion still the home run king. Sorry to all the Bonds fans.

    https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/bra...C2KRNX2KBKIEM/
    Barry Bonds isn't in the top 100!
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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden View Post
    Clemente might have been the most complete all around player ever -

    Unfortunately he was lost to us before he reached his prime

    The period from the late 60's through the entire 70's into the early 80's might have been the Golden Era talent wise for pure baseball talent - especially overall American talent (North and South)

    This was before the NBA & NFL started siphoning off the best African American talent to their respective sports
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    Clemente was 38 when he died...I think he was on the downhill side of prime.

    Ted Williams lost almost five full seasons to military service when he was in his prime, and I've always wondered where he would have ended up if he'd played those five seasons.
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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by CARTEK View Post
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    Ted Williams lost almost five full seasons to military service when he was in his prime, and I've always wondered where he would have ended up if he'd played those five seasons.

    Willie Mays lost almost two full seasons early in his career.

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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by CARTEK View Post
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    Clemente was 38 when he died...I think he was on the downhill side of prime.

    Ted Williams lost almost five full seasons to military service when he was in his prime, and I've always wondered where he would have ended up if he'd played those five seasons.
    For some reason I thought Clemente was 28 instead of 38...

    You are correct about Teddy Ballgame - lost 3? to WWII and 2? to Korea - and he wasn't selling war bonds on his tours of duty, he was slinging lead and dropping TNT....
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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden View Post
    For some reason I thought Clemente was 28 instead of 38...

    You are correct about Teddy Ballgame - lost 3? to WWII and 2? to Korea - and he wasn't selling war bonds on his tours of duty, he was slinging lead and dropping TNT....
    Clemente was still a helluva ball player.

    Chuck Yeager's wingman in Korea. Yeager is to have said that Ted was one of the best pilots he ever flew with...but he said that about most of them!
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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by CARTEK View Post
    Clemente was still a helluva ball player.

    Chuck Yeager's wingman in Korea. Yeager is to have said that Ted was one of the best pilots he ever flew with...but he said that about most of them!
    Clemente was 38 when he died. he also was a Marine Corps veteran

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    Re: Maybe the best to ever play passes

    Quote Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden View Post
    For some reason I thought Clemente was 28 instead of 38...

    You are correct about Teddy Ballgame - lost 3? to WWII and 2? to Korea - and he wasn't selling war bonds on his tours of duty, he was slinging lead and dropping TNT....
    Clemente made it to exactly 3000 hits (I have his last Topps baseball card), so I was a bit surprised by your first comment--was pretty sure he was getting older (though he did look young).

    If Williams could have gotten those years back, I wonder if he could have eclipsed Ruth. He still wouldn't have been as dominant compared to his era, but he probably would have matched the big numbers (HR and RBI, for instance).

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