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Welcome to installment No. 7 of my Cooperstown’s Best series. We are looking at the best 10 Left Fielders who are currently in Baseball’s Hall of Fame.

I tried to publish this as an article instead of a slide show, however it was too large to format properly. I wanted to change because someone had said slide shows were crutches for bad writing.

Now, there is certainly no lack of talent to pick from this pool. Look at some of these legends: Musial, Williams (Ted and Billy), Al Simmons, Ralph Kiner, Yaz, Stargell, Zach Wheat, Ed Delahanty, etc.

There are people who read this article who think Stan Musial is the best Left Fielder ever. Then, there are others who are sure that nobody was better than Teddy Ballgame. At the end of the day, it all comes down to how they did on the field. What numbers did they produce? No doubt, some were hitters who hit for average, some for power, and then the winner will be the one who did best overall.

Willie Stargell and Stan Musial are both included on this list because they are listed that way in the Hall of Fame. Both have played quite a bit at First base.

Monte Irvin is the only Negro League player I have included in this series, because he has eight years of credible statistics in MLB.

I am glad this series is near the finish line because I think I am getting “researcher’s wrists”.

Enough preamble here, let’s get to the list.

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