‘The DH was intended to replace pitchers in the lineup who are almost universally putrid hitters with a player who actually knows how to bat.’
a shortcoming that baseball managed to not only overcome, but thrive with, from 1873-1973...what’s the old saying, if it ain’t broke...
Baseball hardly “thrived” from 1873 to 1973. The average attendance at an MLB game didn’t surpass the 20,000 mark until 1979. It was below 9,000 per game before 1946 — which is an awful figure when you consider that TV revenue was almost non-existent in that era.