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#34
12-13-2007, 08:52 PM
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Who is your favorite obscure baseball player?
Posted By: john/z28jd
Ken,an even interesting bit of trivia is that when Ruth broke Williamsons record most people didnt know it. Buck Freeman who hit 25 homers in 1899 was interviewed right before Ruth broke the record and became "known" again because they thought he was the single season record holder. So when Ruth hit is 26th homer that year on september 8th he was crowned by many as the new single season home run king when he actually wasnt the single season leader until september 24th when he hit his 28th. Somewhere in a book i have is an excerpt of the Freeman article and it was interesting to read his thoughts about it 
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