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Post #180,357 by lincoln 10/21/04 8:08:22 PM Reply	Nit Bonds won't be "the best hitter baseball has ever seen", merely the guy who will set the most home runs record. I'll still rate Ty Cobb and his .367 lifetime average in the era of a "non-juiced" ball as the best hitter ever. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #180,369 by Another Scott 10/21/04 8:35:10 PM Reply	Ty would have had some competition from Chino Smith. [link\|http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/mlb_negro_leagues_profile.jsp?player=smith_chino\|Chino Smith]: When Smith hit .341, as a rookie, he was just getting started. He hit .439 while with Brooklyn in 1927. Then while with the New York Lincoln Giants, Smith hit .464 (with 23 homers) in 1929 and a .468 mark in 1930. Smith's sizzling stick was rarely stifled. Against Major League competition, he batted .405, and hit a homer in his first-ever at-bat. Barry Bonds may pass him in home runs, but Bonds is no [link\|http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/h/ha/hank_aaron.html\|Hank Aaron] - one of the last Negro League players to enter the Majors. E.g. [link\|http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bondsba01.shtml\|Bonds] has 5556 total bases while Aaron has 6856. Cheers, Scott.
Post #180,439 by bepatient 10/22/04 9:36:17 AM Reply	Just telling you [link\|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5993528/\|I'm not qualified to argue with Hank]. \ufffdHe has to be the greatest hitter that I\ufffdve seen,\ufffd Aaron said then, \ufffdor heard of.\ufffd His rationale was simple. \ufffdI think some people say Ted Williams, and Ted was good, because he was the last to hit .400. But who knows? If they had pitched to Barry, he may have hit .450. I don\ufffdt know. That\ufffds a possibility.\ufffd If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #180,445 by Another Scott 10/22/04 10:18:52 AM Reply	He's just being diplomatic as he always is. Class act.
Post #180,450 by deSitter 10/22/04 10:28:44 AM Reply	Most important stats Aaron has a heart, a soul, and a personality. Bonds has none of these. -drl
Post #180,387 by ChrisR 10/21/04 10:00:56 PM Reply	I always thought Rod Carew was the best hitter from the point of view that he didn't have power to put the ball out of the park, so he had to be a batting strategist.

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