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john/z28jd Theyre accurate,look at the league strikeout totals as they dropped a ton as well. In basically the same amount of games the league went from over 4700 K's to just over 3000 K's the next season. The rules back then changed almost yearly,one of which was the restrictions on how a pitcher could throw. Prior they had to deliver the ball underhand,sort of a fast pitch softball delivery,but when they were allowed to throw overhand they were able to throw harder,throw different pitches and the batters had to adjust to it and it shows in the league strikeouts
1885- 3378 in slightly less games
1886-4730
1887-3076