blue turtle wrote:Can the term "DH era" be meaningfully applied to NL? I realize inter-league games complicate the question, but for the NL team vs. NL team matchups, there is no DH era.
Yes, it can. As I said above, the DH era just refers to the era beginning after the DH was first implemented. That covers a period when the NL teams played as well; the era didn't flicker off while the NL teams were playing each other. So, the DH era did (and does) exist for NL teams playing NL teams as well.
Not everybody played Jazz during the Jazz Age, either. However, the non-Jazz players still lived during that era, as well.