Re: Arky Vaughan
I'd say that there's a fair amount of excellent players from the pre-WWII era that have been forgotten over time. Take Harry Heilmann, here's a guy who hit over .400 several times in his career, and had 4 batting titles. It's just the nature of time and people dying off that were around when these guys played.
While the legends will never be forgotten, I'd be willing to bet that in 50-75 years, people will look back at a guy like Curt Schilling and say, wow, this guy was a good pitcher, why is he rarely mentioned as a great player.
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