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Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini
Had no idea until I saw the "great year in 1967" quote. Only 2 guys had outlier great years in 1967 (JL & MM), and one of them pitched in the AL. So I'd be confident in guessing MM of the SFG.
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That makes sense because he started in the mid 50s and the HR he hit could have been early in his career. Still weird to me that there were so few HR by pitchers to that point, even if you start in 1920 and omit the deadball era that's what, 150 per DECADE? 15 per year. So roughly 1 per team per year.
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