None of the Williams-Red Sox, Musial-Cardinals, or Mantle/Maris-Yankees teams check out on Baseball Reference.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 00:52 (five years ago)
those were my first two thoughts
the second one is 1961 but not expressly mantle/maris, as hinted
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 01:16 (five years ago)
and only one of the 2 teams passes the threshold in rWAR
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 01:17 (five years ago)
Okay, now I get it--'61 Tigers.
Going through Fangraphs is too much work; is the other one a Williams or Musial team?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:07 (five years ago)
nope!
it's really hard. it would be astounding if you got this (or anyone else).
all three of the players' first names are three letters long.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:11 (five years ago)
and the legendary top 10 player was a 42-year old at the beginning of his MLB career
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:29 (five years ago)
AhJoe/Ken/Lou...?
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:33 (five years ago)
i'd never even heard of ken keltner
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:34 (five years ago)
Me neither
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:35 (five years ago)
1) post-war 1940s league champion featuring a top 10 joe posnanski player
That's what threw me: you don't say so, but I mistakenly assumed the Posnanski guy was one of the three players.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 06:26 (five years ago)
Keltner's probably most famous now for Bill James's Keltner HOF test.
http://www.cooperstowncred.com/statistics-glossary/keltner-list/
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 06:28 (five years ago)
the satchel paige clue was kind of evil, sorry
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 07:11 (five years ago)
i've never really been good with the early 60s.
same here
I know Ken Keltner bcz he made a defensive play said to have ended DiMag's 56-game hitting streak
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 13:45 (five years ago)
On August 20, 1938, as part of a publicity stunt by the Come to Cleveland Committee, Indians' catchers Frankie Pytlak and Hank Helf successfully caught baseballs dropped by Keltner from Cleveland's 708-foot-tall (216 m) Terminal Tower.[3] The 708-foot (216 m) drop broke the 555-foot, 30-year-old record set by Washington Senator catcher Gabby Street at the Washington Monument.[2]
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 14:28 (five years ago)
I know that story but forgot KK was part of it
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 14:44 (five years ago)
the marlins have thrown six no-hitters
wtf
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 17:31 (five years ago)
This is probably already a well-known question, and the answer should be obvious because the wrong answer is too obvious: who was the first major leaguer to hit 66 home runs?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:13 (five years ago)
you mean the first to hit 66 home runs in a single season? so...there was sammy sosa in 1998 of course. but is it answer mark mcgwire (who hit 70 that year), if he reached 66 home runs first? or is the trick trick question that it was sammy sosa, if he hit 66th before mcgwire did? i don't remember
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:39 (five years ago)
^posted from my computer while logrolling down stairs^
sosa held onto 66 for 45 minutes before mcgwire caught him
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 23:14 (five years ago)
Yes. I'd completely forgotten that--Sosa had the lead for an hour. (Got that from the ESPN documentary.)
― clemenza, Friday, 19 June 2020 01:21 (five years ago)
I'd estimate that the HR leaders this year will have less than 23 HRs for the season. Trivia: When is the last time that happened? (Hint: it was a tie)
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 June 2020 01:28 (five years ago)
i think i'm wrong, but is it 1919? my reasoning is that 1920 is the year that babe ruth really broke out in a monstrous way (54 HR?) and the rest of baseball hadn't quite caught up yet. but maybe the year before that?
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:19 (five years ago)
after that. to clarify, I mean in either league
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:28 (five years ago)
my revised guess is 1981!
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:29 (five years ago)
Yeah, the AL leaders only had 21 that year. Strike season, yada yada.
Armas OAK 22Evans BOS 22Grich CAL 22Murray BAL 22
Grich did it in the least appearances with only 325 AB
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:50 (five years ago)
most HR 60 or fewer games
Player Year Games Team HR
Matt Olson 2017 59 OAK 25 Gary Sánchez 2016 53 NYA 20 Aristides Aquino 2019 56 CIN 19 Rhys Hoskins 2017 50 PHI 18 Troy Glaus 2004 58 ANA 18
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:06 (five years ago)
Matty Olse! I love that
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:48 (five years ago)
So which uni numbers have seen the most value in MLB history? Uni numbers, ranked.(wear 13, cowards)MORE-> https://t.co/TxU2SrJP1j pic.twitter.com/SDtosahjQm— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) July 16, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:44 (four years ago)
why are there 2 points at zero? did someone generate 4 WAR with a uni that said 0.1?
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 17 July 2020 02:42 (four years ago)
0 and 00 are counted as different numbers
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 17 July 2020 02:44 (four years ago)
I Want To Believe
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/eddie-gaedel-jersey.jpg
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 17 July 2020 02:55 (four years ago)
damn you ottovino
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 July 2020 03:14 (four years ago)
Players to homer in consecutive games for the same team with more than two years between them:1. Hank Greenberg (1941-45)*2. Joe DiMaggio (1942-46)*3. Harry Chiti (1952-55)*4. Yoenis Céspedes (2018-20)*Gap was due to military service.Source: STATS, Inc.— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) July 25, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:14 (four years ago)
The starting 4 infield of Vlad Guerrero Jr., @doinitBIGgio23, @BoFlows, and @travis_shaw21 consists of all sons of former @MLB players. This is just the 2nd time in big league history this has happened (Van Slyke, Hairston Jr., De Jesus Jr., Gordon on 6/1/12). h/t: @EliasSports— MLB Stats (@MLBStats) July 25, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:15 (four years ago)
just came across ken reitz, a third baseman who hit .260/.290/.359 over 1300+ games, primarily with the cardinals in the 70s. career bWAR: -3.1
best tidbit is that he was the starting 3B for the NL all-stars in 1980 -- a season in which he was worth -0.6 bWAR -- ahead of ray knight and mike schmidt, who hit .286/.380/.624 with 48 homers that year to win the first of his three MVPs. reitz went 0-for-2 and schmidt never got in the game.
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:26 (four years ago)
i remember Reitz, and possibly ridiculing my Cardinal fan cousin re his abilities
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:30 (four years ago)
I'm buying some Sports Illustrateds from a friend to fill gaps; who was the first baseball player on the cover in the '80s?
― clemenza, Saturday, 22 August 2020 23:02 (four years ago)
Either Pops or The Cobra...?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 23 August 2020 02:26 (four years ago)
You're close in that Stargell shared the last cover of the '70s with Terry Bradshaw (co-Sportsmen of the Year). It was a player who was like turning the page from the previous decade; he would be a name all through the '80s, and provided one of the decade's two or three signature moments.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 02:59 (four years ago)
rickey on his way to stealing 100?
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:29 (four years ago)
He got his first cover in '82.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:40 (four years ago)
Nolan Ryan?
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:43 (four years ago)
Not Ryan...If you think of the decade's two or three most famous moments, you should get it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:45 (four years ago)
george brett
― mookieproof, Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:51 (four years ago)
bill buckner through the legsthe pine tar gamekirk gibson 1988 WS homer
?
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:54 (four years ago)
ozzie smith's NLCS HR in 1985 ("go crazy folks, go crazy!" call by jack buck) is a famous one in cardinals lore, but i don't think it surpasses any of those in terms of fame
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:55 (four years ago)
Has to be a rookie Gibson. I can’t imagine Buckner on the cover.
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:59 (four years ago)
Gibson.
KM's three signature moments are exactly the three I had in mind--so it comes down to Gibson or Brett.
Bizarre thing I found out: in '81, SI used an identical Brett/Schmidt cover twice.
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/tAUAAOSwMnJc9b8y/s-l500.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 04:02 (four years ago)
Who threw the first-ever CG shutout against the Jays?
Fergie Jenkins!
― clemenza, Friday, 25 April 2025 04:01 (two months ago)
i saw that too!
https://cooperstownersincanada.com/2025/04/24/april-24-1977-fergie-jenkins-threw-the-first-shutout-against-the-blue-jays-at-exhibition-stadium-2
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 April 2025 16:22 (two months ago)
Good reader question from Posnanski's column today:
Not counting players who've won an actual (seasonal) Triple Crown, eight others have won a career TC, leading all three categories in different years.
-- four are in the HOF-- three are PED players who would be in otherwise-- one is neither; who is it?
He is a post-expansion player everybody knows well.
Andrés Galarraga
― clemenza, Tuesday, 27 May 2025 20:56 (one month ago)
The guy with the question missed Albert Pujols--someone else.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 27 May 2025 21:16 (one month ago)
i remember seeking out the ]show hidden text[ starting lineup figure just so i could put him sideways in a weird way
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 27 May 2025 21:55 (one month ago)
He was one and done when he came up for the HOF, which makes sense: good raw totals, but the mitigating factor of Coors during his prime barely had him nudge above 30 WAR.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 May 2025 02:19 (one month ago)
Who is the only player to hit more than 90 HR for both the Mets and the Yankees?
Maybe this is an easy one for those of you based in NY, but I couldn't come up with it.
Link to the player's BR page when you want the answer.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 20 June 2025 19:27 (two weeks ago)
thought strawberry may have cranked out some more HRs at the end with the yankees but nope!
― z_tbd, Friday, 20 June 2025 19:35 (two weeks ago)
Curtis Granderson? Haven't checked yet.
― clemenza, Friday, 20 June 2025 19:51 (two weeks ago)
Gold star for robot boy!