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Are you tired of hearing that "George Brett is the only player to win batting titles in three decades?" It's meaningless; it's misleading; it's stupid. I can hear baseball fans saying, "Wow! George Brett did something that Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, and Stan Musial were never able to do." WHAT A CROCK! The media is just being the media, playing with numbers to create this misleading image of "something special". George Brett should be ashamed that he has yet to ask the Baseball Hall of Fame to remove such a meaningless statement from his Hall of Fame Induction Plaque. Stan Musial did it and did it BETTER. Ted Williams did it and did it BETTER; Ty Cobb did it and did it BETTER. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Now, if you want to get picky about what defines a decade - please do. Essentially a decade is "a period of ten years". It's like a year ... a year can be a college year, a fiscal year or a calendar year. We don't penalize Michael Jordan for setting records in a "year" because his playing year is not a CLEAN, January 1st through December 31st year. Of course not. And if you want to talk about CLEAN decades, then this "50's", "60's", etc. naming convention is just a sloppy, convenient crutch created by the media. It's funny how we are capable of numbering our years (1952), our centuries (18th), our millenia (1st) but suddenly, when it comes to numbering our decades, we go brain dead. We can't expect Americans to know that 1951-1960 is the "6th decade". We have to fall on that convenient crutch and suddenly go with a name, "the fifties". How convenient. The fifties are 1950-1959; the 6th decade is 1951-1960. Most people don't even know what to call the 1st decade because our numbering system has yet to reach a multiple of ten. A CLEAN decade, one falling on the boundaries of "ten", would be, for example, the "6th decade" (1951-1960). See Ted Williams' plaque below. He was "Player of the Decade" for the "6th decade" of the 20th Century. Those who awarded Ted Williams this honor, GOT IT RIGHT; the Hall of Fame GOT IT WRONG with George Brett's plaque. If you really want to go the CLEAN route, then Brett's titles of 1976 and 1980 both fell in the "8th decade". So can we agree that for the sake of discussion, a decade should be any 10 year period, regardless of boundaries? And that George Brett is NOT THE ONLY player to win batting titles in three decades? 
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