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tbobhitters in the Golden Age had to deal with blackened balls (they only used a handful each game), spitballs were legal, cut baseballs were prevalent which made the ball do whacky things, bigger strike zones, etc.
It's amazing that anyone hit .400 at all back then. Yes pitchers more often went 9 innings and you didn't have to face "specialists" but the pitching is diluted with the addition of so many teams now. How do you explain guys with borderline mediocre stuff like 43 year old Terry Mulholland hanging on and pitching an inning a game?
Everyone cries about day games after night games, night games in general and flying from place to place. Don't you think the olden players were a tad uncomfortable when they traveled from place to place by train and played day games in the heat of the day?