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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

poor Roger Maris... he got to bat against expansion teams and watered down pitching. The rest of the hitters that year must have faced only #1 and #2 starters, otherwise they'd have hit 50 something or more home runs.


Oh yea, Roger benefited from a 162 game season... the other hitters that year started catching splinters after they'd played in 154.



I'll concede that the slight pitching dilution and the extra 8 games helped Roger. But the media wore him out... and 61 is a bunch more than 50.