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Originally Posted by clydepepper
I just looked it up to satisfy my own curiosity:
Right Field Wall was 280 feet from home ; the 'power' alley in right-center was only 300 feet.
And, yes, Cy Williams was left-handed
So this was the 1920's version of a left-handed slugger in Yankee Stadium (310 feet- in right or 20 feet short of the norm)
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More like Coors Field. Yankee Stadium doesn't have near the effect on stats as the Baker Bowl did and Coors Field has now. The Baker Bowl made poor hitters seem good and good hitters seem great. I don't know if Chuck Klein was a great hitter or not but he batted over .400 at home three straight years in the 1930s while batting under .300 on the road each season and with considerably less power.
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