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Baseball

kairos12

(13,331 posts) Thu Oct 28, 2021, 09:29 AM Oct 2021

Difference in HRS for a season between the leader and the runner-up.

Leader Babe Ruth 54. Runner-up George Sisler 19.

Difference 35.

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Another record that will never be broken (Original Post) kairos12 Oct 2021 OP

Any speculation how that disparity occured? Brother Buzz Oct 2021 #1

IDK. It's another Ruth anomaly. kairos12 Oct 2021 #2

Back in those days most teams played for singles, steals and rurallib Nov 2021 #3

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1. Any speculation how that disparity occured?

Thu Oct 28, 2021, 12:28 PM

Oct 2021

I got nothing.

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2. IDK. It's another Ruth anomaly.

Thu Oct 28, 2021, 08:34 PM

Oct 2021

Like stealing home more times than Ricky Henderson.

Ruth remains the true unicorn.

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3. Back in those days most teams played for singles, steals and

Mon Nov 1, 2021, 04:12 PM

Nov 2021

manufacturing single runs. Ruth was an anomaly. But when owners started seeing the crowds Ruth drew, they soon went looking for homer hitters.