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Friday Stuff

May 30, 2025
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Monday

This week we’re going to look at strikeouts, particularly the vast difference in how the game looked about 90 years ago compared to how it looks today.

Monday was the anniversary of Joe Sewell striking out twice in one game in 1930. As you may know, Sewell was renowned for not striking out much, just 117 times in his entire 14-year career, so this…

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