An excerpt from a good article.
My favorite player of all time, Lou Gehrig.
It also brings into light just how phenomenal his numbers were prior to the 1938 season. With all the current talk who should and shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame, Gehrig's numbers are astronomical. Between 1927 and 1937, he hit under .330 only twice, batted in fewer than 125 runs in a season only once, and had 200 hits in a season eight times. Forget barely making the Hall, Gehrig is either the first or second best first baseman (Albert Pujols) in the history of the game.
The history of baseball is filled with both great statistical years as well as great tragedies. No season has ever combined the best of one with the worst of the other like Lou Gehrig's 1938 season. It may have been the year he became human as a baseball player, but it's also the year he became an immortal American legend.
Lou was the man, unfortunately he falls into the "what if" category with Ted Williams, DiMaggio and Griffey. What if they didn't get hurt? What if WWII wouldn't have happened?
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Sure there is. What if Pulols wasn't on steroids?? What would his stats be like then? Sorry, can't accept his not juicing. He came in mid swing of the Steroid Era and has jacked balls like nobody's business. MLB and it's players have created this "culture of suspicion" through the hundreds of players that got busted. Sorry, he's on steroids. Just like Tiger Woods and I called that one two years ago.
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