After the rousing success of eight amazing seasons of the 1980s, my editor suggested we follow that up with nine for the '90s.
I told Dan, in my best Luke Skywalker voice, "That's impossible."
You see, the 1990s were such an astonishing statistical orgy that I couldn't pick just nine seasons. No, I had to go with 90.
In the 1980s, nobody hit 50 home runs. In the 1990s, it happened 12 times. In the 1980s, there were 13 40-homer seasons. In the 1990s, there were 72. In the 1980s, there were 18 seasons where a batter hit .