Distrusting the Old Timers

Recalculating the Statistical Record
(Obsessive Compulsive Contemporary Behavior)

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  • Baseball fans lived with the record books for years!
  • Hack Wilson had a record 190 RBI's in 1930!
  • Ty Cobb won 12 (that's a dozen) batting titles!
  • Poor doomed Ed Delehanty won the 1902 AL bat crown!
  • The players themselves lived with the results!
  • Researchers now are re-checking everything!

    • Stat geeks now pore over old scorebooks, game accounts, and box scores looking for hits
    that were untallied or twice tallied or were actually errors. . .
    . . . and they've decided that

  • Hack actually had 191 RBI's in 1930
  • Ty Cobb only won 11 titles--Lajoie beat him in 1910
  • And Nap beat out former teammate Delahanty in 1902!

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