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Originally Posted by -Yukari-

You do realize that, just like the news post says "sport", all sports undergo changes that argue the old scores are "obsolete"? In baseball, new bats were designed. Baseballs were redesigned to travel farther. Do you know that they moved the pitcher's mound back? Yeah, so all the years they played with it in the original position, those records are "obsolete"? That's ridiculous.

Yes, but the offensive changes in baseball were in response to the foul strike rule, a change that singlehandedly sparked the lowest offensively productive era in baseball. Pitchers were given such an advantage that they had to balance it back out (while keeping the foul strike rule which sped up games dramatically).