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Originally Posted by Jason Moyer
That's because players prior to Ruth were taught that trying to hit homeruns was foolish. Once he showed that you could hit homeruns with a high frequency, lots of other players started putting up similar numbers.
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Except in the NL aside from Hornsby (Cy Williams had the same benefit as Gavvy in that band box Baker Bowl) where McGraw and his disciples still loved deadball and were determined to beat Babe with tradition
W/o McGraw I think we would have seen more Ken Williams players pop up in the NL
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