What's still amazing about Jackie Robinson in 1946-47 is that the man had played almost no organized baseball, let alone professional baseball, the previous four years.https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1320183446438858754 …
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I mean, on top of all the other amazing things. What he did was really hard *in baseball terms* even on top of changing America.
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It very understandably slips into the background, but he was incredibly good. Fangraphs WAR from 1949-53 (his age 30-34 seasons): 1. Musial (39.6) 2. Robinson (39.3) 3. (the criminally under-discussed) Larry Doby (29.3).
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