 The Sporting News published an article written by Paul MacFarlane in its April 18 , 1981 , issue where historian Pete Palmer had discovered that while Cobb 's September 24 doubleheader was not correctly tabulated ( perhaps purposefully ) according to the correct date , the second game 's statistics were in fact included in the next day 's ledger , thus incorrectly recording a second 2 @-@ for @-@ 3 performance from Cobb which meant Lajoie 's average was greater . Author James Vail wrote in 2001 : 
