Originally Posted By: SC
Williams was the best ballplayer of my lifetime and he didn't make the 95% club.


Originally Posted By: pizzaboy

And as an aside, Willie Mays was the best ALL AROUND outfielder of your lifetime.


Mays gets dinged some because he ran out of steam by the time he got back to New York, but I think he and Honus Wagner were the only guys among the really great offensive players who were still playing well at an "up the middle" position in their late 30s. Pretty much everyone else had either shifted down to an easier position or was just getting by on defensive reputation by the time they were 35.


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