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ProfessorGAC

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5. Thing That Stood Out To Me On The List

Reply to Celerity (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 30, 2023, 03:46 PM

Nov 2023

Gehrig!
There's only one other name on that list with under 20 years, & that's Williams
So Lou is still 7th on the list with FAR fewer plate appearances.
Henry got an RBI for each slightly over 6 PA.
Lou got one for each slightly under FIVE PA.
His disease cost him 3 years at least. Good chance he'd still be RBI king 80+ years later, if not for ALS.

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