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Originally Posted by The Wolf

I don't believe you. There wasn't enough data recorded or preserved to get anywhere close to that.

What was it that was said by someone else upthread? A guess multiplied by a guess and divided by a guess is still a guess?

Originally Posted by The Wolf

"Box scores are often ambiguous, even contradictory. Stolen bases, pitchers of record, strikeouts, and even at bats and extra base hits, were not always given and had to be estimated if possible. When did spring training end and the regular season begin? Was an inter-league series a playoff or not?

In the final analysis, the research comes down to dedicated but fallible human beings, all good at their jobs, all striving to do perfect work, all men and women of good will.

And all still disagreeing."

- John B Holway, SABR Researcher, on Negro Leagues research

I won't even mention the Negro Leagues for which ENTIRE YEARS of stats are lost.

It's going to be the Y2k disaster all over again...