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jay behrens Just got my latest SABR Records Committee newsletter. It is has some great info in it, the most important of which is a change to Sam Thompson RBI total in 1894 which puts him ahead of Hugh Duffy for the RBI title that year and also eliminates him from the Triple Crown title. The additional stats found for Thompson also raised his BA to .416, giving him the highest BA for someone who did not win a title.
The other really interesting stat was that Rocco Baldelli and Carl Crawford passed Ted Williams and Bobby Doerr as the rookie duo with the most hits. Williams and Doerr had 352, Baldelli and Crawford had 351 as of Sept 24th. This list also points out that there are 15 rookie duos to get 100+ hits each and of the 15, only 3 of the duos do not involve HOFers.
If you guys ahven't already joined SABR, you really should since being colelctors of vintage cards is a perfect mesh with this organization and their annual publications are always outstanding.
Jay