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dola,
As suspected, this was a dead-ball era carryover thing. Joe DiMaggio had a grand total of 14 sacrifices his entire career and none at all after 1946. Ernie Banks started to use the bunt to move runners up late in his career, but before his age-36 season he had a grand total of 16. Ted Williams had 5 in his career, one more than Albert Belle in a lot more at-bats. Frank Robinson hit 17, 13 of those when he was 20 and 21 years of age. After guys like Huggins retired, nobody was using their sluggers to sacrifice.
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