Fluke seasons: some players recorded one extraordinary productive year in an otherwise so-so career.

Baseball Digest | August 1, 2004| | Copyright

BASEBALL LINGO IS EVER CHANGing, for better or worse, and among the fresher descriptive phrases flung around liberally in recent years--along with "going yard," "walk-off homer," "quality start"--is the complimentary "career season."

Babe Ruth and his contemporaries were unaware of it, the expression not being in vogue in their day, but he definitely enjoyed a "career season" when he hit 60 home runs in 1927, as did Rogers Hornsby when he batted .424 in 1924. So did Barry Bonds with his 73 home runs three years ago.

"Career season" is perfectly acceptable, ...

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