[pcgTheDestroyer]

Oh good grief. That's as bad as the "other side" of the coin saying that all of the records from the 20s and 30s need to have asterisks because they didn't play against the best players of the day... only the best *white* players of the day. Let it go, baseball changes.

[Freepdonia]

Oh good grief. That's as bad as the "other side" of the coin saying that all of the records from the 20s and 30s need to have asterisks because they didn't play against the best players of the day... only the best *white* players of the day. Let it go, baseball changes.

I agree. Besides, the majority of records are created due to favorable conditions surrounding them. You could wind up putting asterisks on every record then!

[Alberta's Child]

That's true, but that's exactly what pissed Roger Maris off so much in 1961. Major League Baseball went out of their way to single him out by denigrating his record among all single-season records at the time. I may be wrong about this, but I believe the single-season home run record is still the only one that is listed separately in the record books for 154-game and 162-game seasons.

As a side note, what made this so idiotic was that until Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa arrived on the scene a few years ago the National League record for home runs in a 154-game season was higher than the record for a 162-game schedule.

[elmer fudd]

You could also argue that the quality of the average pitcher today is probably much better than in the 1920's so that batters have a much more dificult time of it.