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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Rose poll more data
Message-ID: <668@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 08:43:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 08:43:46 1985
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> So after Rose breaks Cobb's record, the last big untouchable records
> are in pitching right. You think anyone will win 61 games in a season,
> or pitch 757 strikeouts in a season, or 113 shutouts in a lifetime,
> or 513 wins in a lifetime, or pitch 780 complete games?

I don't think we should seriously worry ourselves over pitching
"records" set before the baseball field assumed it's modern
dimensions.   It's easier to win 61 games if you can pitch every day
or every other day, for example, and humans CAN do that if they pitch
from substantially closer to the plate.  In fact, there are a LOT of
pitchers I could think of that would look positively awesome pitching
from a distance of 45 feet...

At least Wilson's RBI record was established on a field with the full
dimensions!  We can discuss it seriously...

						David Rubin