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Friday, April 10, 2009

Baseball Families

By Tangotiger, 09:07 AM

Dan gives us the lowdown on the best baseball families in the Retrosheet era.

The fact that a single family can repeatedly produce some of the top baseball talent in the world is staggering to me. You don’t really see it happen in any other sport, although basketball is beginning to see a legacy effect.

I would bet that hockey has far more, especially if you look at brothers-only. Off the top of my head, the best brothers is probably Richard(*) and Esposito. Sutter is the biggest, with pretty good talent. Staal and Sedin among contemporaries. Really, it’s so prevalent that it’s pretty easy to not even realize it. The Hansons Hunter, Dineen, Dryden, Kostityn, Primeau, Stastny. I could go on forever. Parise among father-son. There’s also lots of hope that the brother-gene is an indicator. Gretzky, Lindros, and Lemieux brothers know about that.

(*) Here’s a good Richard story: a third brother.

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