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For Love of the Game

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Pitch count; career totals; sexual partners

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  • Chapel's pitch count is an unanswered question; an estimate of 120–122 is offered from the strikeouts, batters and long counts.
  • His career totals remain uncertain, with 300 wins inferred as necessary for the film's Hall of Fame framing rather than explicitly supplied.
  • The owner's complaint about modern baseball provokes disagreement about progress, localized fandom and MVP criteria; his paternal relationship with Chapel prompts a Succession joke.
  • The number of Chapel's sexual partners is an unanswered question, with thousands proposed from his long traveling career and a counterpoint that repeat arrangements could reduce the total.