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I have a league with both historical and fictional players that started in 1870. Home run totals had been low even for that era which makes what Willie Keeler did on May 13th, 1903, all the more remarkable.
You'll notice that in the clipping from the box score, he hit 3 home runs. Nothing unusual for our time period, but no one had ever hit 3 HRs in a single game in the entire 34 years history of the league. Buck Freeman, the career HR leader, averaged only 5.6 HRs per season up to this point. Furthermore, Keeler hit only 19 HRs in his 13 years up to this point, including only 4 HRs total in this particular season.
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