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Branch Rickey Helped Mickey Mantle Become Better Than Willie Mays

debate is now in its 70th decade.

During their careers, Willie Mays was better than Mickey Mantle, but despite the fact that Mays played his last game in 1973 and Mantle played his last game in 1968, an increasing number of individuals today think maybe, just maybe, Mantle really was the better player.

In 1947, Branch Rickey, the great Brooklyn Dodgers general manager, hired Allan Roth as the Dodgers statistician. It was a baseball first.

A few years later, Roth and Rickey created a new statistic they called "On-Base Average." The "experts" ridiculed it, claiming it merely inflated batting average by equating walks with hits.

One popular baseball writer facetiously asked, "How many walks does it take to get in a runner from ...

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