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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
However, limiting the time frame to when both parks were in use (1912 through 1938), the Baker Bowl had 8,094 doubles hit by the home team versus 6,103 doubles hit in other parks, whereas Fenway Park had 7,444 doubles hit by the home team versus 7,715 hit in other parks.
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Right, so that suggests the factors are off, as one would expect with those dimensions.
This is from wikipedia, so we know it contains facts:
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The right field wall came to be known as the Baker Wall after William Baker who ran the club from 1913 until his death in 1930. The right field wall and screen in its final form was 60 feet (18 m) high. By comparison, Fenway Park's left field wall, the Green Monster, is 37 feet (11 m) high, and 310 feet (94 m) away.
The wall was an amalgam of different materials. It was originally a masonry structure topped by a wire fence.
With the advent of the live-ball era in 1920, it became significantly easier to hit home runs over the near right field wall. The Phillies extended the barrier upward with masonry, wood, and a metal pipe-and-wire screen. The lower part of the wall was rough[31] and eventually a layer of tin was laid over the entire structure except for the upper part of the screen.
Because of its material, it made a distinctive sound when balls ricocheted off it, as happened frequently. The clubhouse was located above and behind the center field wall.[3] No batter ever hit a ball over the clubhouse, but Rogers Hornsby once hit a ball through a window.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Bowl
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So could be a phenomenon of deadball, as am in season 1918.