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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

It was not just Williamson in 1884, the entire Chicago team set a team/season HR record that was not equalled until the 1927 Yankees. Seven years earlier, in 1877, Chicago set the still standing team/season record for slugging futility with a team total of zero homers for the season (some short lived Union Association teams also went homerless, but they did not play much of a season)

Also in 1884 they allowed overhand pitching for the first time, and eight pitchers won 40 or more games, 13 had more than 300Ks, with 4 over four hundred strikeouts for the season.

On the original subject, in addition to C.Granderson, Jimmy Rollins is closing the gap. He stands just two triples shy of achieving this "feat" as well. He has 35 doubles, 18 triples, 27 HRs and 35 stolen bases thus far this season.