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Old 07-17-2007, 11:38 PM   #33
sfaustin3
Minors (Rookie Ball)
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: St. Louis
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I ran a historical sim 1901-2007, with fictional players alongside the historical ones, and with an annual amateur draft for non-historical distribution of players.

When it was over and I generated the League's Leaderboards, and I was pleasantly surprised (shocked, actually) that the highest single-season batting average wasn't Hugh Duffy's .440 in 1894, but Tony Gwynn's .445 in 1994!

.445! And exactly 100 years later.

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Curiously enough, by this point in his career Gwynn had arrived in San Diego (traded from California in 1990) so he had his best season as a Padre. And it's nice that he got to 3000 hits before he retired.
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