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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3026005, member: 289"] Despite the title I wasn't really trying to estimate their value as players. I wondered why Joe had so many more doubles and triples than Mickey who played in the same ballpark and was even faster. I think the fly ball vs. line drive hitter theory has the most weight but even than doesn't quite explain the discrepancy. it's probably several things. Everybody has their what ifs, except maybe Hank Aaron. Babe Ruth was a pitcher in the dead ball era for the first five years of his career. If he'd been an outfielder in the live ball era for his entire career, he might have hit 900 homers and everybody else's what ifs wouldn't have mattered. [/QUOTE]