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The game of baseball in general last year deserves serious attention. Major League Baseball saw some remarkable records set or equaled in 2007 and by a fortuitous conjunction three vital marks were notched up in a single day. Tom Glavine, one of the nicest guys in the game, won his 300th game; Alex Rodriguez, dedicated to doing the right thing but troubled by a tender psyche, became the youngest man ever to reach the 500 homerun plateau; and Barry Bonds, who feeds on disapproval, surpassed Hank Aaron with homer number 756. Rodriguez is likely to end up with more homers in his career than any number Bonds chooses as his last. All this raises questions. Hank Aaron did not attend Bonds’ record tying and breaking games but sent a gracious video. In the post steroid era, it is unlikely that Rodriguez, despite the likelihood that he will hold the career record, will crack 73 homers. Like Aaron, he will fall far shy of the single season mark. And with pitchers throwing in five man rotations and regularly coming out of games after six or seven innings, the likelihood of more than one or two more 300 game winners is miniscule. But comparative statistics are of the essence in baseball. How are we to make the necessary comparisons?
The answer is clear. Mounds are raised and lowered to accommodate or restrain good hitting. Ball parks and atmospheric conditions, which once varied widely, are coming under control. Ball parks are smaller, to increase the likelihood of homeruns being hit, and where adverse weather threatens a team domed stadiums bring the game in out of the wind and cold. Moreover, the once sacred tradition of constructing all bats out of ash has quietly passed. Many hardwoods are harder than ash and balls jump off them. They are not as powerful as aluminum bats but powerful enough. Then there are improved training methods in use now, special exercises and foods that improve strength and durability, operations that restore the use of damaged arms and legs, films in slow motion that allow coaches and players to detect problems in their cuts and deliveries. All those issues demand attention before the steroids issue is broached, and the steroids issue is a big one. Not only can hitters power what under normal circumstances would be a fly out into the bleachers 20 feet or so further away, but also (and largely unnoted) some of the drugs improve concentration as well as hand-eye coordination.
The solution? Straightforward: evaluate each record in relation to the nearest attainments by others in the same era. Barry Bonds crossed the 70 homerun threshold along with two others in the Steroid Era. He is clearly the greatest of the Steroid Era homerun hitters but 600 big ones were attainable. Asterisks are silly but context is not. It is silly to say that Einstein was smarter than Newton; he was confronted by a different level of technology and a different set of facts and problems. But as remarkable in his era as Newton was in his Einstein certainly was. Both dramatically altered the idea of what the universe was like. The measurement of space and the passage of time are not universally the same but dependant upon the speed and direction of observers and objects? Are you kidding me? No, Einstein would observe modestly. Time space, the basic region in which all our observations are made is not what it used to be. The same is true for the time and space in which sports records are set. Give the old and new fellas a break: measure them in relation to their own system of coordinates, and if you insist on comparing them do so by weighing the accomplishments of each in relation to other accomplishments in their time space. Ruth’s homerun output when he first cracked 59 exceeded that of all the players together on the next two most productive teams. That’s going to be hard to beat.
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