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Originally Posted by DG
I heard a story once, Ted Williams was asked, long after he retired, about the pitching at present. He was asked to compare against pitchers of his day. He said he would not be able to bat much over .300 against today's pitchers. The questionaire asked if the pitchers were that much better these days, and he said no, I'm in my 60's now...
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I think that despite the differences, baseball players from different generations would be able to compete fairly evenly against players of other times, i.e. players from the 50s/60s would do fine in today's game. I don't know if I would say the same about football. The players are definitely bigger and faster than they were 40-50 years ago, so I would bet the players from past decades would have a harder time with football now than the baseball players would.