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Rabbit Hole: "We could have finished last without you."

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Jul 15, 2022
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Rabbit Hole: "We could have finished last without you."

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As a baseball fan, you’ve probably heard some version of this story: In 1952, Pittsburgh’s Ralph Kiner led the league in home runs for the seventh straight year. Six of those seven Pirate teams were pretty terrible, but that ’52 group was particularly bad — going 42-112-1 and finishing last by more than 20 games.

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