Justin Morneau, Canada's All-Time Best at 1st? August 20th, 2006 at 10:18 am
When consulting the numerous All-Time Canadian team lists on the internet and in printed works, many will claim that Bill Phillips, an 1800’s ballplayer is the greatest Canadian born first baseman of all-time. When modern day players with gaudy stats are mentioned against players of an earlier era, many will reply that overall batting statistics were far lower during this era. Is this true? Definitely. When this is the case than we need to delve further into the individual players statistics. For this example we will do this by comparing Bill Phillips and Justin Morneau’s statistics against their peers, along with their career Win Shares.
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Kris wrote: August 20th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Thanks, Matthias, good link. I cut some of it out because I don't want to display other people's full articles on the site…I'd rather send them the traffic.
Also, the formatting on the tables was a little screwed up and hard to read anyway.