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statistics are not officially recorded in any journals or databases, experts estimate that he had a career batting average of .350, accompanied by an on-base percentage of around .401 (the major-league averages usually hover around .330-.350) and a slugging percentage of .624 (major-league average .450-.475). By doing these examinations, today, we can easily measure the greatness of some of the Negro Leagues’ best, by comparing them to modern or more-recent stars. "...and such hitters as Josh Gibson

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In Major League Baseball the general belief is that the more a team spends on their payroll the more games they will win. With the absence of a salary cap baseball may seam unfair to the smaller market teams who can't bare the salary costs that the larger market teams can. In Michael Lewis' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Lewis depicts just how the Oakland Athletics have been winning in an unfair game for almost a decade. The A's are a small market team that doesn't have nearly the

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