Who's Better: Ted Williams or Johnny Damon?

Yesterday, Johnny Damon passed Ted Williams on the all-time hit list. Wrap your head around that.

Here's another Johnny Damon fact: he's on pace to play in 140+ games for a 16th consecutive year. The other guys on that list: Frank Robinson, Hank Aaron, Pete Rose. That's the list. If Damon can do it again next year, he'll be the whole list.

Johnny Damon's a swell player. Fifteen seasons of .287/.354/.436, 392 steals at an 80% clip and a cool haircut (or lack of one) is worth writing home about even if you have a noodle arm in the outfield. He's not Ted Williams swell, though, or Frank Robinson swell or Hank Aaron swell or Pete Rose swell. 
But he's flying in their rarefied air these days. That's got to be a nice feeling.

That and the $107 million he's made in his career.

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