Where is the next Ted Williams, the next guy who can hit a ball at .400 or better for a season? Nowhere in sight.  Professional baseball has swapped intuition for science over the last forty years. It has been an unqualified failure.

Name the .400 hitters:  Cobb. Hornsby. Lajoie. Williams.

We have no .400 hitters in the Free Agency or the Steroids Eras of the game.  A-Rod got close, but more on him, later.

Name the top  pitchers in the history of the game:

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MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - 05.24.09 - I was editing the terrific piece on Friday about the passing of Nick Adenhart (See: "The Guy Everyone Wanted to Be Around," SZ, 05.24.09), when it occurred to me that while we mourn the dead, we are not not nearly as kind to the living, or concerned about how they live.

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