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Originally Posted by sporr
dola, for those who say Rice was the most feared hitter of his era (I've heard it and read it quite a bit), what is this based on? Stats or just a gut feeling? Stats simply don't back it up.
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Because every time I've read/seen interviews with AL pitchers of that era, the one name that consistently pops up when asked to list guys that they hated to see walk to the plate was Jim Rice. As an example, read Goose Gossage's thoughts on the matter.
Maybe a lot of those pitchers didn't think that then, but say it now because it's been accepted over the years. I don't know.
And, BTW, if his stats don't back it up, whose stats from that era do? Which AL hitter did, then? Did anybody?