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Originally Posted by G1911
It's even worse than 60 games. The slugging percentage 'record' is now achieved in 183 plate appearances in 39 games. These 39 games are not even a complete record, just the box scores they were able to find. Now I have no doubt that Josh Gibson was a truly great ballplayer, and he should absolutely be held up as one of the greatest players of all time, but pretending he had the best slugging season in MLB history is..., well, highly dubious at best.
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Perhaps there should be a minimum plate appearances total for the single year rate records, rather than just a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances per team game played. But I for one will not lose any sleep about Josh Gibson now being listed as the single season slugging leader instead of Barry Bonds. Nor does it particularly bother me that Hugh Duffy's 1897 batting average of .4397 is no longer considered the highest single season batting average.