Just How Tough Was It? (How Competitive is Major League Baseball?)

By Gary Fletcher (published originally in 2015, I think)

When I was a lad my uncle and I were watching a hockey game and he said to me, “You
know, they’re not very good, but they sure are competitive!” He was speaking about the
New York Rangers in the early 1960’s, but this isn’t about the Rangers or, for that matter,
about hockey. It’s not even about good or bad, not really. It’s about competitiveness.

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