Editing Hack Wilson (section)

====1930 peak====
Wilson's [[1930 Chicago Cubs season|1930 season]], aided by a lively ball wound with special Australian wool, is considered one of the best single-season hitting performances in baseball history.<ref name="Hack Wilson Belted Homers, Hecklers with Equal Gusto"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/hitting/hibavg4.shtml |title=League by League Totals for Batting Average |publisher=Baseball Almanac |access-date=March 1, 2011 |archive-date=November 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113133712/https://www.baseball-almanac.com/hitting/hibavg4.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> By the middle of July, he had accumulated 82 RBIs. In August, he hit 13 home runs and 53 RBIs, and by September 17 he had reached 174 RBIs, breaking [[Lou Gehrig]]'s major league record established three years earlier.<ref name="Hack Wilson Belted Homers, Hecklers with Equal Gusto"/> He finished the season with 190 RBIs, along with a then-NL-record 56 home runs, .356 batting average, .454 on-base percentage, and league-leading .723 [[slugging percentage]].<ref name="Hack Wilson statistics"/> He was unofficially voted the NL's most "useful" player by the [[Baseball Writers' Association of America]] (which did not inaugurate its official MVP award until 1931).<ref>{{cite news |title=Hack Wilson Is Picked as Most Useful Player |agency=Associated Press |work=The Milwaukee Journal |page=2 |date=October 8, 1930 |access-date=February 23, 2011 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v6ZQAAAAIBAJ&pg=6659,6340651&dq=hack+wilson&hl=en |archive-date=April 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426120627/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v6ZQAAAAIBAJ&pg=6659%2C6340651&dq=hack+wilson&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1999, the [[Commissioner of Baseball (MLB)|Commissioner of Baseball]] officially increased Wilson's 1930 RBI total to 191 after a [[Box score (baseball)|box score]] analysis by baseball historian [[Jerome Holtzman]] revealed that [[Charlie Grimm]] had been mistakenly credited with an RBI actually driven home by Wilson during the second game of a doubleheader on July 28.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wilson's record increases to 191 |agency=Associated Press |work=The Tuscaloosa News |page=5 |date=June 23, 1999 |access-date=March 1, 2011 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3TwdAAAAIBAJ&pg=3089,4576555&dq=hack+wilson&hl=en |archive-date=April 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426120628/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3TwdAAAAIBAJ&pg=3089%2C4576555&dq=hack+wilson&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> Wilson's 191 RBIs remains one of baseball's most enduring records; only Gehrig (185) and [[Hank Greenberg]] (184) ever came close, and there have been no serious challenges in the last 85 years. (The best effort since 1938 was 165 by [[Manny Ramirez]] in 1999.)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/RBI_season.shtml |title=Single-Season Leaders & Records for Runs Batted In |publisher=Baseball Reference |access-date=February 28, 2011 |archive-date=January 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210102190131/https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/RBI_season.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

Reds catcher [[Clyde Sukeforth]] asserted that Wilson should have been credited with an additional home run in 1930 as well. "He hit one in Cincinnati one day," he said, "way up in the seats, hit it so hard that it bounced right back onto the field. The umpire had a bad angle on it and ruled that it had hit the screen and bounced back. I was sitting in the Cincinnati bullpen, and of course, we weren't going to say anything. But Hack really hit 57 that year."{{sfn|Parker|2000|pp=113–114}} Wilson's official total of 56 stood as the NL record until the 1998 season, when it was broken by [[Sammy Sosa]] (66) and [[Mark McGwire]] (70).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/HR_season.shtml |title=Single-Season Leaders & Records for Home Runs |publisher=Baseball Reference |access-date=February 28, 2011 |archive-date=June 20, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070620135024/http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/HR_season.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>