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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
People still relate to baseball players as people generally of normal size and build so when someone develops well beyond that, it doesn't sit well. Nobody expects that of football players who at many positions are of supernatural size and strength.
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I think there is also a much greater historical emphasis on numbers and statistics in baseball, and during the PED era, those old numbers were being dwarfed. Most baseball fans knew 61 was the home run record for a season. How many football fans know the rushing or receiving yardage records?