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Oh....and I gotta mention that Jim Rice could out hit/slug Pappi any day and 2 times on Sunday! Oh how so many forget the quality of hitter that Jim Rice was.....power and average! I am not talking 40 homers and a .300 average and 170 hits....I am talking 45 homers, 145 rbi and 200 hits with a .330 average....Rice also had over 400 total bases in 1978 and it was the first time anyone had done that in many, many years.......I don't know if it has been done since either.
I will give Big Pappi the clutch hitter nod over Rice though. Rice was not nearly as good a hitter in the clutch as Ortiz....though I think Yaz was at least as good in the clutch.
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