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performances, the Major League

Baseball decided to change the rules.

The committee decided to reduce the

strike zone from knees to shoulders

to top of knees to armpits for the

beginning of the 1969 season. The

American League and the National

Sox player named Carl Yastrzemski League always competed against

won the American League with each other. They wanted to have

the lowest average score in Major more spectators than each other, so

League Baseball. Denny McLain the American League implemented

was another unusual player from the the designated hitter rule to bring

Detroit Tigers who won 31 games. more spectators.

After these unbalanced pitching During the 1960s and 1970s, the