Pre-steroid era, most baseball players peaked at 27. Then the decline would set in. Hall of famers are the ones that had the highest peaks, and then the slowest rate of decline.
Bill James had this figured out in the late eighties.
34 posted on 03/16/2009 8:13:49 PM PDT by vollmond
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