I don’t think there’s much debate that baseball players today are better than they were 50 or 100 years ago. For one thing, MLB is now integrated. It’s truly an international sport. The second thing is players at nearly all levels now play and work out year-round. With AAU and traveling teams, pre-teen ballplayers probably play more games in a summer than I played in the five years I played ball. At higher levels, players have access to trainers and dieticians, as well as cutting-edge technology. The gloves are better. The bats are multiple times better. We used to use whatever wooden bat we could get our hands on.
A look back on Harry Simpson
