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Originally Posted by MathBandit
My intuition is that single-season HR totals are *much* more noisy than stuff like BA, which is why it would make sense that players who were elite in other categories in a given season are probably more 'sticky' than players who had outlier HR seasons.
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Also could be there are still some people around like those at the time who were angry at Maris for breaking Babe's record.