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    In major league baseball, the dead-ball era refers to a period from about 1900 to 1920 in which run scoring was low and home runs were rare in comparison...
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    1920. It contrasts with the pre-1920 period known as the "dead-ball era". The name "live-ball era" comes from the dramatic rise in offensive statistics,...
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  • Look up dead ball in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dead ball is a term in many ball sports in which the ball is deemed temporarily not playable, and...
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    several years. In the very early part of the 20th century, known as the "dead-ball era", baseball rules and equipment favored the "inside game" and the game...
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    tighter than in previous years, notably the dead-ball era that prevailed through 1920, people often say the ball is "juiced". The height of the seams also...
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    average, the definition of a good ERA varies from year to year. During the dead-ball era of the 1900s and 1910s, an ERA below 2.00 (two earned runs allowed...
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    Major League Baseball (category All articles with dead external links)
    including the contentious reserve clause. The period before 1920 was the dead-ball era, when home runs were rarely hit. Professional baseball was rocked by...
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    sometimes the golden era, describes the period in Major League Baseball from the end of the dead-ball era until the modern era—roughly, from 1920 to...
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    touches it before he is out. Stolen bases were more common in baseball's dead-ball era, when teams relied more on stolen bases and hit and run plays than on...
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    by era, by locale, by organizational-type, game evolution, as well as by political and cultural influence. The game evolved from older bat-and-ball games...
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  • scoring position. Such tactics were dominant in the 1890s and the dead-ball era, when extra-base hits were relatively rare. Runners in scoring position...
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    played early in Major League Baseball history, particularly in the dead-ball era. Another factor that may have contributed to the decrease of triples...
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  • that keep the ball in the infield: walks, base hits, bunts, and stolen bases. This was the primary offensive strategy during the dead-ball era. Inside baseball...
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    will have in a given inning. Small ball was once the standard by which the game was played during the "dead-ball era" at the beginning of the 20th century...
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    year from 1988 through 2002, and became the first player since the dead-ball era to lead both leagues in home runs — the American League (AL) in 1989...
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  • statistically one of the weakest hitting World Series teams since the Dead-ball era. During the regular season the Game 4 starting line up of Steve Sax...
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    portal 2021 pitch doctoring controversy Ball tampering in cricket Cheating in baseball Live-ball era and dead-ball era "Doctoring the Baseball". Major League...
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    Athletics. Although Wheat spent the first part of his career playing in the Dead ball era, he hit over .300 in 13 seasons and won the National League batting...
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    have any chance at hitting the ball. As the intentional walk became more frequent following the end of the dead ball era, batters such as Babe Ruth complained...
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    career and all of Wagner's career took place in what is known as the Dead-Ball Era, which was characterized by higher batting averages by star players...
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    major league record for most career stolen bases by a catcher since the dead-ball era with 189. At the time of his retirement in 2012, Kendall ranked second...
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    Pittsburgh Pirates' Honus Wagner, known as "The Flying Dutchman", a dead-ball era baseball player who is widely considered to be one of the best players...
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    Sonny Jurgensen (category All articles with dead external links)
    Jurgensen's 82.62 career passer rating is the highest for any player in the "Dead Ball Era" (pre-1978). Lombardi once told Pat Peppler of the Green Bay Packers...
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    Babe Ruth (category American League ERA champions)
    sometimes hit long home runs, a feat unusual for any player in the dead-ball era. Although Ruth twice won 23 games in a season as a pitcher and was a...
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    Mordecai Brown (category National League ERA champions)
    manager during the first two decades of the 20th century (known as the "dead-ball era"). Due to a farm-machinery accident in his youth (April 17, 1888), Brown...
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    became the primary offensive strategy during the dead-ball era. The equivalent modern term is "small ball". Critics also note that the reputation of the...
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  • percent of their starts every year since 1959. Comparisons with the dead-ball era pre-1920 are misleading, since the pitcher's behavior was very different...
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    a Gold Glove Award during his career. Playing in baseball's "second dead-ball era", he was one of the game's best hitters during his first eight seasons...
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    1990s, it was around .340, whereas it was typically .300 during the dead-ball era. On-base percentage can also vary quite considerably from player to...
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    of a cork-based ball helped to end the dead-ball era and trigger the live-ball era. Bouncy ball List of ball games Quantum bouncing ball Here, v and u are...
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