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I like the grim iron determination to get better, offered by both players.
Snelling was probably the best pure hitter I've seen in the M's minors other than Edgar.  A special talent, a guy who could fall out of bed and hit top-level pitching at 20 (which was why Lou promoted him at that age). 
... we notice that he has about 250 total pro AB's the last three years, at ages 25-26-27.  I hope some day his body holds together.
In the sense of being guys who had absolutely no fear of top-level competition, I can see the comp...

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