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Originally Posted by Touch'EmAll
As a kid reading up and looking at stats, I was (still am) amazed at the 60 win season for Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn. Like Wow !
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It's now 59 wins
Ole Hoss got credit for one he didn't deserve. I liked it better when it was 60. And when Dutch Leonard's ERA was 1.01. And Hugh Duffy's average was .438. And Hack Wilson's RBI total was 190. And Ty Cobb's average was .367.
I *highly* recommend the book "59 in '84" about that season. Baseball history of the highest order.
Fun fact: Radbourn is the first person know to have been photographed while flipping the bird to the camera. And he did it at least twice.