Jimmie Foxx drove in 175 runs in 1938 and nobody has passed 165 in the years since. Ramirez got there in 147 games, which means he missed roughly two weeks of the season and still produced a number that has stood for more than a quarter century. Two weeks. There is a version of that year with those games in it that nobody ever got to see, and it is the only RBI season in living memory that leaves you doing that kind of arithmetic. Context belongs here, because a number like that is never one man's doing. That Cleveland club scored 1,009 runs, the only team since 1950 to reach four figures, and Manny hit behind Kenny Lofton, Omar Vizquel and Roberto Alomar, so somebody was almost always standing on second when he came up. A lineup like that turns every inning into traffic, and he cleared it for six months. None of that drives the run in for you. It only gives you the chance, and the difference between a good RBI man and this is what happens after the chance arrives. Then they blew a two games to none lead to Boston in the division series, and the whole thing went in the drawer with every other regular season that did not finish. Nobody has driven in that many runs since, and nobody has come especially close.