Deadball era/home runs

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Posted By: Dwight

Just looking over my great-uncle's pitching stats on SABR and noticed he never gave up a home run during his 25-year career (1909-1934 all in the minor leagues). I realize this was the deadball era, but it seems the ball would have carried out once in a great while. Isn't this highly unusual??

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Posted By: Steve

No inside the park homers? And IIR wasn't what we call a ground rule double a homer too back then?

Quite impressive non the less.

Steve

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Posted By: Dwight

My first thought was perhaps home runs weren't part of the stats, but I see other players in the same era hit a few - not many. Also has a category that recorded earned runs, which is a little more challenging to score than HRs...

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

The stat may not have been kept at every stop he made. The SABR database is nowhere near complete.

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Posted By: Dwight

The Minor League Register stats didn't include home runs, either. Though, it did record more challenging stats -- earn runs, walks, strike outs and ERA...