View Poll Results: Who had the better career

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  • Willie Mays

    13 76.47%
  • Ty Cobb

    4 23.53%
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    Ty Cobb vs. Willie Mays

    Who had the better career?

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    Crap, forgot to add a poll. Could a mod do that for me, please?

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    Ill go with, even if he was a prick. Its a slight edge IMO.

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    Although they were in different eras, Mays.

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    Mays
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    4-2|3.42 ERA|1.28 WHIP|55.1 IP|56K


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    Willie Mays.
    Favourite Teams:

    Boston Red Sox: 22-16
    Indianapolis Colts: Decent draft, no new wide reciever though.
    Detroit Pistons: Looking forward to the draft and whoever the new coach will be
    Ottawa Senators: Onto Round 2 vs. Pittsburgh, Game 1 tomorrow night

    Beautiful:


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    Cobb

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    Going to say Cobb, he was better offensely, hard to compare their defense considering how far back Cobb played.

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    Mays
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    At that level personal conduct matters. Mays easily over Cobb as a package.

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    cobb was a much better batter but then again its different eras

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    Quote Originally Posted by xnickx5757 View Post
    cobb was a much better batter but then again its different eras
    Really? Because of his inflated batting averages?

    rWAR says:

    Cobb: oWAR: 144.7 dWAR: -10.8

    Mays: oWAR: 131.3 dWAR: 18.1

    Mays was a better player and person. Cobb was a violent racist, sociopath, and murderer, that played a game quite different from todays game - and that only against whites

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    haha
    Last edited by FortDetroit; 10-06-2012 at 09:40 PM.

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    Mays was a class act wasn't he

    Bryant cites a first-hand account from 1957, a United Press/Movietone News reporter named Reese Schoenfeld, that Mays ragged on Aaron from the sidelines while Henry was being interviewed in front of a TV camera: "How much they paying you, Hank? They ain't payin' you at all, Hank? Don't you know we all get paid for this? You ruin it for the rest of us, Hank! You just fall off the turnip truck?"

    While Aaron became more and more agitated, Mays laid it on thick: "You showin' 'em how you swing? We get paid three to four hundred dollars for this. You one dumb ******!"

    Oh wait. He was an ******* too.

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