If you're of a certain age and we're talking baseball, when I say "1987," your brain probably automatically goes to "rabbit ball year." Before the bombardment of home runs last season, there was 1987, the original Year of the Home Run. The 26 teams averaged a then-record 1.06 home runs per game, hitting 645 more home runs than were hit in 1986. The MLB average of 4.72 runs per game was the highest since 1950, a figure that actually topped the 4.65 runs per game in 2017.
In the midst of all those home runs, the St.