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From: luriem@alleg.edu(Michael Lurie) The Liberalizer
Subject: Re: Winfield's spot on THE ALL TIME GREATS TEAM
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 21:22:01 GMT
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In article <9834@blue.cis.pitt.edu> dtate+@pitt.edu (David M. Tate)  
writes:
> In article <C5wEwD.Kto@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>  
drw3l@delmarva.evsc.Virginia.EDU (David Robert Walker) writes:
> >In article <9729@blue.cis.pitt.edu> dtate+@pitt.edu (David M. Tate)  
writes:
> 
ielding RF of all time, as far
> 	    as anyone can tell
> 
> I did a quick scan last night, looking for players with a peak  
comparable
> to or better than Winfield.  In my quick-n-dirty subjective judgement,  
you
> could make good cases for Ruth, Aaron, Ott, Robinson, Clemente, Kaline, 
> Maris, Klein, Jackson, Waner, and probably a few others.  This is not a
> knock on Winfield, but a comment on his consistency: all of those other
> players had awesome stretches and very good stretches, while Winfield  
has
> been more uniformly excellent.  Hall of Fame?  Absolutely.  Top-10 peak?
> I'm not so sure.  Top 10 total career value?  Yes, almost certainly.
> 
> 



Point taken. When was winfield's peak years anyway? probably around 85.
