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For those who think baseball records are being corrupted by steroids...
Charles Radbourn won 59 games in a season.
John Coleman lost 48 games in a season.
Matt Kilroy struck out 513 batters in a season.
Hugh Duffy hit .440 in a season.
Baseball records don't mean shit. The game has changed...and changed...and changed.
There is already a dead ball era and a live ball era...a segregated era and an integrated era...seasons with 70, 60, 84, 98, 112, 126, 140, 154, 132, and 162 game schedules...one league and two leagues...no divisions, four divisions, six divisions...postseasons with 2, 4, 6, and 8 teams...no interleague play and interleague play, etc. etc. etc.
Why so many people hold onto the idea that baseball records are somehow special when compared to other sports is beyond me.
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