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LEAVING HIS REMARKABLE MARK EVEN DURING THIS LONG-BALL ERA, HACK WILSON'S RBI RECORD OF 191 STANDS THE TEST OF TIME.(Hardball)
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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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September 1, 2003
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Byline: Jack Etkin
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
For nearly 70 years, the RBI records have stood, seemingly unassailable. Lively ball? So what. Players who are bigger, stronger and train year round? It doesn't seem to matter. Smaller ballparks meant to evoke the past and geared for offense? No discernible effect, really.
Hack Wilson drove in 191 runs for the Chicago Cubs in 1930, the most by any major league player in one season. The next year, Lou Gehrig, no stranger to the RBI stratosphere, drove in 184 runs for the New York Yankees, setting the American League record that still stands.
These RBI marks are bits of baseball antiquity. Not only did Wilson and Gehrig ...
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