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Old 06-17-2011, 11:58 AM   #30
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Default Re: Hockey v. Baseball

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I would never deign denigrate the skill set needed to have success on the ice. Yet it can also be said that too many seem to think they could hit a curveball. I've consistently maintained that baseball is the only game where you can fail 7 times out of 10, and if you can manage to do it long enough you end up in the Hall Of Fame. So what's the diff?

As always, just my , and still worth every penny.
If we're simply talking skill to succeed, I'd argue golf is the most difficult sport in the world to master. So subtle is the difference in swing between being out of bounds to being in the middle of the fairway. Putting is an art in iself.

The best player to date, Jack Nicklaus, played 154 consecutive majors for which he was eligible, from the 1957 U.S. Open to the 1998 U.S. Open and won 18 of them. That's 11.6% or 0.116.
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