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markj111markj111 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭
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Three players in the history of the game retired after he had a season with 450+ PAs and an OPS+ greater than 140. Who are they? Hint-all are well known, and all began their careers after WWII.

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  • bkingbking Posts: 3,095 ✭✭
    Rod Gaspar??
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  • markj111markj111 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭
    This was easier than I thought-or did you look it up? BTW Gaspar missed the cut. I got Bonds and Clark, but was surprised my Mantle. He hit only.237 his last year and was widely considered to be washed up when he retired. However, it was an extreme year for pichers, and he walked more than 100 times. He was 2nd or 3rd (can't remember) in the league in OBP, despite the low BA.
  • SabermanSaberman Posts: 677
    The people that call Mickey Mantle overrated because his career average is below .300, need not apply as a member of a good baseball discussion.

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  • TomGshotputTomGshotput Posts: 1,358
    The way it is worded Harry Heilmann would qualify. Retired after 1930, although returned for a few games in 1932

    For an obscure name who just missed we see Dutch Zwilling of the Federal League
    Tom
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The way it is worded Harry Heilmann would qualify. Retired after 1930, although returned for a few games in 1932

    For an obscure name who just missed we see Dutch Zwilling of the Federal League

    Zwilling is better known as the last man aplhabetically to play professional baseball. His career equivalent of two full major league seasons in the FL, and the equivalent of a September's callup in PA in the ML was quite brief..


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  • PSACollectorPSACollector Posts: 43
    joe jackson - 173 ops+ in final 1920 season

    happy felsch - 144 ops+ in final 1920 season

    both, though, did not quite retire as they were banned by the commissioner
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