If you read the article again you will notice that I never named Barry as my pick for the best ever.  That honor truly has to go to Brown for the same reason that Ruth was the best baseball player ever: he was SO much better than any of his contemporaries that he stands as a giant among them.  My point was not just that Barry would have owned the record had he played longer, but that he would have put it out of reach of the guy who owns it now, and probably even out of the reach of the new crop of RBs playing now (Portis, Edge, Tomlinson, etc.)

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