A 1960sBaseball.com Exclusive!
.jpg) An In-Depth Comparison of
the Players, Teams and
Major Leagues from
the 1920s through the 1990s.
In Baseball’s Real Golden Age? You Decide, you’ll find the most comprehensive study of on-the-field performances from the beginning of the lively ball era through the end of the 20th Century.
WARNING: Not for the casual fan.
Side-by-side comparisons
of hitting, slugging and pitching
through 8 decades of great baseball.
Baseball’s Real Golden Age? You Decide. takes you on a whirlwind tour of baseball from the 1920s through the 1990s.
You’ll see at a glance how hitters and pitchers stack up against each other from one decade to the next, and how changes in the game – from Babe Ruth’s fence-busting bat to the rise of the relief specialist to the offense added by the designated hitter – have made performance comparisons from one era to the next more challenging … and, with the right statistical “ammo,” utterly fascinating.
Information you can’t find anywhere else!
Baseball’s Real Golden Age? You Decide. offers statistics and highlights that bring an entirely new perspective on the way baseball was played from the 1920s through the 1990s, how the game evolved, and which decade was truly baseball’s “golden age.”
Compare baseball's all-time greatest hitters
- for average and for power -
decade by decade.
When you do, you’ll meet …
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The 1920s outfielder who once hit .375 and didn’t win the batting title … in fact, he finished 49 percentage points behind the league leader. (Page 7)
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The first baseman who hit .340 or better 4 times during the 1930s … yet won only 1 batting title. (Page 11)
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The Yankee second baseman who beat out the year’s Triple Crown champion to win the league MVP. (Page 11)
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The American League club that hit .316 as a team in 1921 and hit .300 or better 4 times during the 1920s. (Hint: It wasn't the Yankees, who never led the AL in team batting during the 1920s.) (Page 15)
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The 3 hitters who topped Babe Ruth’s .376 batting average in his first year as a New York Yankee. (Page 18)
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The 3 players in major league history to hit more than 400 home runs in a single decade (the last happening during the 1990s). (Page 23)
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The two players who hit home runs in the same game an incredible 75 times – more than Ruth/Gehrig and Mays/McCovey. (Page 25)
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The Yankee who drove in more runs during the 1950s than any other American Leaguer … but never led the league in RBIs. (Page 31)
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The only team to have 5 different 100-RBI hitters during a single season. (Page 34)
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The .264 lifetime hitter who blasted more extra-inning home runs in a season than Willie Mays, Lou Gehrig and Ted Williams. (Page 46)
Read a sample chapter:
Comparing the Hitters, Decade by Decade
Compare the leaders in victories, strikeouts and ERA
– decade by decade –
from the 1920s through the 1990s.
Aces can be found in every decade, but did you know …
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Which hurler won more games in a decade than any pitcher since 1920, and more games in his career than any pitcher who’s pitched since 1930? (Page 48)
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What pitch revolutionized baseball … and consistently handicapped major league batting averages after World War II? (Page 49)
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How the emergence of the relief specialist starting in the 1960s effectively lowered batting averages while raising ERAs? (Page 50)
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Why the performance statistics for today’s starting pitchers can’t match up to their 1960s counterparts? (Page 51)
- Why, in the 1920s and 1930s, Boston was the place to find future Yankee pitching aces? (Page 53)
- Why Hal Newhouser and Bob Feller “owned” American League hitters during the 1940s? (Page 53)
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The one record shared by Cy Young and Greg Maddux? (Page 54)
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Which decade produced the most 300-game winners? (Page 55)
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Which pitcher set the record for most consecutive strikeouts in a game (he fanned 10 straight)? (Page 58)
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Which pitcher struck out more batters in a single decade than Hall of Famers Warren Spahn, Bob Feller and Christy Mathewson did in their careers? (Page 59)
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Which American League team featured the league’s strikeout leader 12 times in the 20-year span from 1938 to 1957? (Page 60)
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What pair of southpaws won 10 ERA titles between them during the 1930s? (Page 65)
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Which pitcher was the first in major league history to win 5 consecutive ERA titles? (Page 66)
Baseball’s Real Golden Age? You Decide is the only source
that compares combined major league performances
on a decade-by-decade basis.
It’s the one measure for really comparing the quality of baseball played in each decade. And it’s the only approach that reveals …
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In which decade major league teams averaged nearly 10 runs per game combined. (A case of great hitters, or mediocre pitchers?) (Page 75)
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Why winning a batting championship in the 1920s required you to hit better than .390 for the season. (Page 77)
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That the major leagues produced more .300 hitters in the 1990s than they were in the 1950s and 1960s combined. (Page 78)
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That major league earned-run averages were lowest in the 1960s, and highest in the 1990s. (Page 82)
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That major league hitters in the 1990s struck more than twice as often as hitters in the 1920s. (Page 83)
Which era produced the best major league baseball?
Don’t get caught in that argument without the information available only in Baseball’s Real Golden Age? You Decide. Which decade did produce baseball’s real golden age? The answers are finally available.
Read this fact-packed 88-page book. Then you decide.
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