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True Dough

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3. It's true that it's difficult to compare sports over different eras

Reply to LenaBaby61 (Reply #2)

Sun May 1, 2022, 10:41 AM

May 2022

And that applies to all of them. Makes for interesting debate, I suppose, because we'll never really know for sure how one player would stack up if you could teleport him/her 50 years into the future or past.

One thing modern players have going for them, a considerable advantage over athletes of yesterday, is advances in technology and nutrition.

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