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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
AhJoe/Ken/Lou...?
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:33 (four years ago) link
i'd never even heard of ken keltner
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
Me neither
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:35 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
I know that story but forgot KK was part of it
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
the marlins have thrown six no-hitters
wtf
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
^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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
after that. to clarify, I mean in either league
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
my revised guess is 1981!
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Matty Olse! I love that
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
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) link
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) link
0 and 00 are counted as different numbers
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 17 July 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
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) link
damn you ottovino
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 July 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
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) link
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) link
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) link
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) link
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) link
Either Pops or The Cobra...?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 23 August 2020 02:26 (four years ago) link
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) link
rickey on his way to stealing 100?
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:29 (four years ago) link
He got his first cover in '82.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:40 (four years ago) link
Nolan Ryan?
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
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) link
george brett
― mookieproof, Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:51 (four years ago) link
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) link
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) link
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) link
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) link
Those aren't alternate covers...okay, duh, I just realized; that was the strike year.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
81 strike broke my heart. That is the last run of the Big Red Machine, they somehow had best record in baseball and missed the playoffs. That's so totally Cincy.
― earlnash, Sunday, 23 August 2020 06:27 (four years ago) link
You'd think this would be easy, but my first four guesses were wrong: who are the four players who hit HR at 19 and after turning 40? (From a FB group.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Not a question. The Grid led me to look up Mike Bordick today. He finished his career with 1,500 hits, 500 walks, and 800 strikeouts.
― clemenza, Sunday, 18 August 2024 12:08 (two weeks ago) link
Is there a general thread for posting odd or interesting stat-related stuff from the past?
Fluke of the calendar, but caught my attention:
MLB Hits Leaders - Past 10 Decades
2010-2019: Robinson Cano - 2,624 hits2000-2009: Ichiro Suzuki - 2,244 hits1990-1999: Wade Boggs - 1,999 hits1980-1989: Wade Boggs - 1,821 hits1970-1979: Pete Rose - 2,251 hits1960-1969: Pete Rose - 2,090 hits1950-1959: Willie Mays - 1,805 hits1940-1949: Stan Musial - 1,589 hits1930-1939: Paul Waner - 1,814 hits1920-1929: Rogers Hornsby - 2,043 hits
― clemenza, Monday, 19 August 2024 22:05 (two weeks ago) link
Jesus, that's obviously wrong...averaged 262 hits per season! Sorry, don't shoot the messenger.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 August 2024 22:06 (two weeks ago) link
Looking at the comments, apparently that's not the only error in there.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 August 2024 22:08 (two weeks ago) link
MLB.com features Sporacle along with Immaculate Grid...I rarely open it up, but this one's interesting (I got 19/25):
https://www.mlb.com/fans/trivia/name-that-baseball-player
― clemenza, Friday, 30 August 2024 20:17 (one week ago) link
I got 8. But that was also from having terrible luck with my guesses (which was most of them)
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 31 August 2024 02:12 (six days ago) link
I got 13. There’s a fun reference to Buster’s legal name in this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZS9fmkY184
― Romy Gonzalez’s utility infusion (gyac), Saturday, 31 August 2024 11:19 (six days ago) link