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Posted By: jay behrens

Glen, I didn't think to look at the 40s. I assumed you were talking about 3 consecutive decades. I do not agree that 1980 is part of the 80s. It is wrong and I will not go along with something just becuase the general public is too lazy to conprehend how a calendar based decades work.

John, SABR can be anal like that about decade type records. Personally, I think records that are based on the happnestance of when you started career are kind of stupid. Records like that are neat factoids, but no records should based around playing in a decade of the 40s, 70s, etc. If you can use any ten year period, then that's perfectly fine.

There are still lots of incorrect records in the books. SABR works hard to get them corrected, but like any monolithic institution, baseball is slow to change records even when give all the eveidence to support it.

Jay

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