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)
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)
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)
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 (four years ago)
Of the four, only one is obvious.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 20:22 (four years ago)
hmm
guesses:
alex rodriguez
not sure if they played when they were 19:ted williamsbarry bonds
not sure if they played when they were 40:
mel ott
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:08 (four years ago)
A-Rod is the easy one. (So easy, he wasn't one of my guesses...) The other three, no.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:11 (four years ago)
yarg, i missed another kind of obvious one that i almost mentioned (an old schooler)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:11 (four years ago)
Bonds went to college (ASU) so nope.
I was thinking Rickey, Hornsby & Cobb but those are way too obvious so I really have no idea.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:12 (four years ago)
I had no idea A-Rod was still playing at age 40!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:13 (four years ago)
Meaning you checked? Cobb, yes, the only one I got right--I actually don't he's obvious. My joke on FB was that those were the only two homers he hit, spaced 21 years apart.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:14 (four years ago)
"don't think"
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:15 (four years ago)
barry, mel ott?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:28 (four years ago)
No to both.
A-Rod, Cobb, two more (neither in the HOF).
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:34 (four years ago)
wait, neither one in hall of fame?
...oh shit! i was thinking babe ruth was an answer, because he played when he was 19. but he didn't hit a HR that year.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:37 (four years ago)
Somewhat misleading--one may end up there. (The other a Veteran's Committee-type guy whose moment has passed.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:39 (four years ago)
ok, I have some time now and I was pretty damn close with my incorrect guesses!:
Rickey: first HR came at age 20, last at 44 Hornsby: first HR came just after his 20th birthday (+17 days), last at age 41
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:12 (four years ago)
one of my other guesses was close too (KGriffeyJr), but just checked and he had no HRs in his final season as a 40 year old.
I still have no idea who the other ones are.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:15 (four years ago)
One of my incorrect guesses, Kaline, was close at the other end: hit his first HR at 18, his last two months shy of 40.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:22 (four years ago)
Also guessed Aaron: last HR at 42, first one a little over two months past his 20th birthday.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:24 (four years ago)
Beltre, another incorrect guess, wasn't quite as close: first at 19, but his last was seven months shy of his 40th. My fourth, Yaz, wasn't close: 44 (!) when he hit has last, but his first didn't come till he was almost 22.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:30 (four years ago)
julio franco?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:55 (four years ago)
should have been andruw but alas
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 December 2020 01:20 (four years ago)
Someone else guessed him...no. I'm going out for a bit; let me know if you want the last two (or, it's searchable on Google).
― clemenza, Friday, 11 December 2020 01:21 (four years ago)
The other two (the only time I will ever use this): Rusty Staub, Gary Sheffield. The second might make you think "Yeah, of course"; I doubt anyone would think of the first.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 December 2020 17:27 (four years ago)
That was a good question. Had me sifting through my memory banks for sure.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 December 2020 17:34 (four years ago)
Most HR under each presidentBiden: tied at 0Trump: Trout 134Obama: Pujols 272W Bush: A-Rod 364Clinton: Griffey 351HW Bush: McGriff 137Reagan: Schmidt 259Carter: Schmidt 152Ford: Schmidt 87Nixon: Aaron 218Johnson: Mays 181Kennedy: Killebrew 139Eisenhower: Mathews 313— Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) January 20, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 22:27 (four years ago)
i was hoping, and phew:
Most HR under each president:Truman: Kiner 294FDR: Foxx 353Hoover: Ruth 182Coolidge: Ruth 289Harding: Ruth 119Wilson: G Cravath 106Taft: F Schulte 47Roosevelt: H Davis 59McKinley: B Freeman 46Cleveland (both): S Thompson 85Harrison: H Stovey 51Who will lead Biden’s?— Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) January 20, 2021
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 22:31 (four years ago)
Juan Soto
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 23:27 (four years ago)
That's neat...Best matches: Ruth/Hoover (roaring '20s), Griffey/Clinton (harder to explain...dot.com boom, home-run boom). Weirdest pairing: McGriff/H.W. Bush.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 January 2021 08:28 (four years ago)
Crime Dog : War Criminal
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 21 January 2021 13:56 (four years ago)
My guess for Biden: Acuna
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:01 (four years ago)
I found this fun, hope you will, too!Longest gap between plate appearances in batter vs pitcher matchup since 1990:6,233 days: Gary Sheffield vs Roger ClemensFaced each other on July 25, 1990 (MIL/BOS)Next time they faced off? Aug. 18, 2007 (DET/NYY)(h/t @EliasSports)— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) February 10, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 16:24 (four years ago)
Interleague didn't start until 1997
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 16:39 (four years ago)
...so I feel like that anything prior and after should be treated as Different Times.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 16:40 (four years ago)
Fact is still fun motion denied
― ✖, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 18:05 (four years ago)
this was posted to reddit, thought i'd share here:
There's a group of six players who all have something that only they have in common. I'll give you five of them, you try to answer with who the sixth player is and what it is they share.Hank AaronBarry BondsRickey HendersonMickey MantleJim Thome
Hank AaronBarry BondsRickey HendersonMickey MantleJim Thome
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 25 February 2021 18:38 (four years ago)
First thought was "power/speed?" Nope, Thome doesn't fit. "Late-career accomplishment?" Mantle doesn't fit.
― clemenza, Thursday, 25 February 2021 19:10 (four years ago)
so - if it helps the 6th person is Lance Berkman
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 February 2021 01:24 (four years ago)
I looked, still no idea.
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 February 2021 15:16 (four years ago)
Has to do with home runs
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 February 2021 15:45 (four years ago)