Baseball fans look at the statistics for 1933 and presume that most of the players were not power hitters. Led by Chuck Klein's 28, only three N.L. players hit as many as 20 homers. In the A.L., Jimmie Foxx hit a remarkable 48 dingers, driving in 163 runs, but only three other A.L. players, including Babe Ruth (34) and Lou Gehrig (31), hit as many as twenty. For one thing, many baseball historians believe that the ball used in 1933 was deadened compared to that used in 1932 -- and particularly compared to the "jackrabbit ball" of 1930.
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