quote:Originally posted by igball:
I think the MLB player who most resembled Lebron would have to have been Bo Jackson.
Excellent point! Bo was a college player and later a minor league player. Athletically, the argument can be made imho.
Here is another theory on fillsfan's questions. I am sure the population started to increase dramatically after WWII. Baseball was also still the most popular sport in terms of participation. Increasing population with increasing partcipation may have explained some of it (greater number of great athletes playing baseball versus some other sport) but then again, I could be wrong