at all and I a respect your stats..but if you study them closely by what the pitching was in the league at the time you can see some of the points I was trying to make. You can see that milwauke and Philadelphia handled him really well. That is because Milwauke had Spahn, Burdette, and Buhl. Philadelphia handled him good because they had Roberts and Simmons. The Giants and Cardinals handled him fairly good to a lesser degree because Giants at least Maglee and Cards Had Staley, both of whom I know he could't hit. Now neither the Giants or Cards had deep staffs at that time with some below average  starters and like I said to begin with Snider had a reputation of living off bad pitching, and I saw him enough and kept up enough through radio and box scores to know that was true. He never hit well against the Cards better starters. Also note that he raked Chicago and Pittsburgs pitching and they were the doormats of the league at the time. In looking further at the stats you presented, he seemed to hit less against Cincy than anyone else and I can't remember why that would be. I know they weren't very good in those years but must have had some guys that pitched him good, I know they had Nuxhall. Don't remember who else. Actually I don't dislike Duke Snider, Arod or anybody else. I have seen Snider get a few big hits. All major league good hitters do, but there are good hitters and there are better good hitters if you can follow me. And it is hard by strictly stats to glean the difference. But when the statement was made at the time when Edmunds was being celebrated for his accomplishments with the Cards "That he was overated for his defense and compared to Duke Snider overall, but maybe a little lower." Then I knew it had to be made by some that had not lived long enough see Snider play and was probably from some computer annalsys. I will say this in closing. As good as Arod is: in a game on line situation, I'm not so sure I wouldn't rather have Pojols and I don't know off hand how their stats compare. Ballplayers are humans not robots and are better examined by Humans and not computer stats.