This has always bothered me. Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs and Pete Rose get remembered for being hitters with their BA's. Frank Thomas will be remembered as a slugger and an on base machine. Who cares about batting average? It also grinds my gears how a fair amount of Sox fans, who can remember, rip on John Kruk retiring just to keep his BA at .300. Why is that different for Frank? Personally I'd rather see him get to 600 home runs if it meant his career BA would drop to .275-/280 (that would take a lot.)