Always a gifted, natural athlete, Bonds was also the perfect five-tool ballplayer: He could run, field, throw, hit for average and belt the ball a mile.

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The Red Sox slugger once routinely hit around .300, but his average has tailed off in recent years as infielders snared hit after hit in right-center field.

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Tony Gwynn, meanwhile: a five-time batting champion, had a batting average - career batting average of, I think, 338, five gold gloves and right field for the San Diego Padres.

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With an average height of 6-foot-3, the team's starting back line is the tallest to take the field in the Six Nations during the modern era.

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