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Kingman rather famously didn’t walk though.
A better historical-ish 3TO guy would be Rob Deer, who was basically Joey Gallo before Joey Gallo. Or Mickey Tettleton, at least for a few seasons.
I think there was a larger question of what a guy with these numbers looked like on the field. Dolph Camilli is a tough one but for guys like Deer and Tettleton, they were guys who tended to follow the Earl Weaver philosophy of looking only for your pitch, let’s say a fastball high in the zone, and not swinging at anything else. Their raw power kept pitchers from throwing a ton of obvious strikes and IIRC Deer had big issues with pitches that looked like bad fastballs in his [art of the plate - sliders for example - but then darted away.
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