The purity test for stats on a part of the board dedicated to pre-war is a bit "okay, then."
Players defining their own strike zone...foul balls aren't strikes...7 balls for a walk...legal doctoring of the ball...erratically less games played depending on the era...umpires set up in weird positions on the field...the mound size (or lack of one in early cases)...lack of consistency in the actual baseball construction...extremely oddly dimensions on baseball parks...
I got more.
Let's just put an asterisk on everything and call it a day.
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