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Posted By: Julie

I think the elimination of astrisks was because the new policy is to "judge the player by the standards of his time"--except where this is really stretching it, like walks when it takes 9 pitches, and stolen bases where every extra-base hit is a stolen base, and giving a pitcher an error every time--I don't remember, but about 5 different things. All these were very short-lived rules.

My Baseball Enclyclopedia is from 1989, so Maris still has his heavy type, AND his astrisk.