Re: Baseball HOF Results
I have no data to back this up but...
I think if Dawson played on grass every day in his younger days he'd already be in the Hall. That turf just messed him up. Look at his career: he had four awesome years in Montreal and 4 very good years in five in Chicago, but there's this two year window in there - during his supposed peak - where he just wasn't very good. Enhance his numbers in those two seasons to levels even just below those of the seasons before, and that's all it may have taken to have him already in.
I know, I know, studies show that in baseball there have not been any long term effects due to Astroturf. If that's the case then 1) why are teams changing from Astroturf to other kinds of turf and 2) why are there stories like Andre Dawson?
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