Interesting discussion the other day. [View all]

I was talking with another baseball fan the other day. We discussed who would fair better in these circumstances.

You take the great players of the 20s and 30s and pit them against the great players of the 80s and 90s. They each play in the other's eras with full knowledge of what they know from their own eras. Equipment available would only be that of the playing era of the time. Example: 80s players would be playing with 20s equipment and vice-versa.

I said the players from the 20s and 30s would do way better. Why?

Because the players from the 80s and 90s would never stand in the box without a helmet on. Nevermind all the other body armor of today.