[buckalfa]

Another boy of summer gone. Sigh. Kaline was not a superstar by today’s standards but he was a solid consistent player in all phases of the game. One of the last roll models.

[riverdawg]

“Kaline was not a superstar by today’s standards ...”

First, I’m not even sure what that means. His career should be evaluated by the standards that prevailed at that time. In any case, he was an 18x all-star, had +3,000 hits, and 399 HRs. Those are (or should be) HOF numbers in any era.

[stevem]

Another boy of summer gone. Sigh. Kaline was not a superstar by today’s standards but he was a solid consistent player in all phases of the game. One of the last roll models.

He also had a cannon for an arm...and it was accurate.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Kaline was not a superstar by today’s standards

I suppose that you also pooh-pooh cars of that era because they're not up to today's standards.

It's bad enough that an entire side of society (the Left side, of course) does exactly that with historical figures like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the United States in general. I don't like it there, and I don't like it here.

[redshawk]

He was my favorite player back in the day. Went to every game I could.

[MarvinStinson]

Tell us what are “today’s standards”