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I think you're buying into the steroid thing too much (yes, I think he took them). But while he was playing, he was the most feared hitter in the game, and he changed the basic structure of any game where he played. Managers would do things to avid pitching to him that were absolutely unheard of (intentionally walking him to start an inning in a tie game, intentionally loading the bases from men on first & second, constantly putting the go ahead run on base to avoid the possibility he would hit a home run... in effect giving him a base rather than risk giving him 4). Imagine, just imagine, what his statistics would have been if he'd gotten the number of chances to hit that other great hitters did!
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