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WHAT IF?

One of the best things about the National Pastime is that the game lends itself so wonderfully to passionate arguments and spirited speculation. And one of the fountainheads of such debate is speculation about what might have been if history had played out differently. In the spirit of hot-stove league discussion, the editors of The Baseball Encyclopedia have attempted to reconstruct the careers of the greatest players in history, taking into account three important factors:· length of regular-season schedules; wartime military service; and labor disruptions.  

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