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Baseball

kairos12

(13,353 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.

1920

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Another record that will never be broken [View all] 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