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Posted By: john

his 27 homers were a mlrecord till that ruth guy came along,but the reason that he had that many homers in 1884 was the field they played at was less than 200 feet down each line,and williamson being a righty,left field was just 180,in prevous seasons balls hit over the fence were ruled to be doubles,needless to say in previous seasons he was among the league leader in doubles,the following season they changed the home run rule back. Williamson played 13 seasons total but hit only 56 home runs in the other 12 seasons combined. He held the national league record for homers until 1922 when Rogers Hornsby hit 42