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From: bradley@princeton.UUCP (Bradley Dickinson)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Hall of Fame plea
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 13:10:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 13:10:51 1985
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> In article <1017@abnji.UUCP> nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) writes:
> >Yes.  Brooks Robinson was one of the finer players at third base in
> >all time.  Ron Santo, though good, was not in the same class.
> 
> I will grant you that Robinson was a better fielder than Santo.  But Santo
> was a very good fielder, and a much better hitter.  While I would have been
> happy to have either of them on a team I was managing, given a choice, I
> would choose Santo.

For further discussion about Santo, see the cover story of the current
"National Pastime" published by SABR.  He's one of a dozen players
proposed a deserving of enshrinement in the Hall of Fame.