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Message: [QUOTE="dennismenace, post: 5280778, member: 6158"] Williams was acknowledged as perhaps the best pure hitter in modern baseball. It would have been interesting if they had been playing in each others parks. Williams was a pure pull hitter. In his prime years (1940's) the shift was applied almost exclusively against him. Therefore "where he damn wanted to" was right field. Mantle was a switch hitter with enormous power to all fields. Here is a link which at the time was reserved almost exclusively for Williams. He would not alter his swing but rather just kept smashing it through or over right field. [URL='https://www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/article-numbers-evolution-shift-real-issue-mlb']Evolution Of The Shift: The Real Issue In MLB[/URL] I'm a fan of Williams though a Yankee fan. Guy was a legend. Listen to him talk about his contemporaries: [MEDIA=youtube]Q1PjJUXm3Ek[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]