Deadball-era Pitching Records Revised
Revising Deadball-era Pitching Records Last fall the Almanac began to examine the records of deadball-era (1902-1919) pitchers whose records were incomplete by virtue of their playing in fewer than 15 games. Using newspapers.com to look up each box score for a particular season allowed me to gather a range of data for a pitcher whose published record was incomplete. This time-consuming process was essential to the overall objective of determining the leaders in categories such as hits per nine innings and other assorted "ratios-based" values; the goals was to create a leaderboard for the top pitchers using the new numbers. Then in December the focus of the project shifted to the original aim of the subject for this issue in order to explore how the various pitching leaders established their records, such as Davy Dunkle 's 31 wins or Heinie Berger' s 260 strikeouts. The result of this work was published just days ago and highlights the records of five pitchers: t...