baseball trivia

Single season home run leaders:

Barry Bonds, 73
Mark McGwire, 70
Roger Maris, 61
Babe Ruth, 60

who had the record before RUth?

 

Jetes?

 

If it's not Jetes, than it's Ned Williamson.

 

No! It was Garvy Cravath.

 

No dumb ass, it was Ned Williamson.

Read it, learn it, live it, love it ...

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/HR_progress.shtml

You asked who Ruth replaced as the single-season record-holder, not who Ruth displaced as the career leader, which was Gavvy Cravath.

Stick to what you know ... Jetes' nads.

 

No, I am correct. Cravath had the modern (post-1900) record.

I don't count 1880s records. The game was too different...6 balls to get a walk and the mound was 50 ft away. (Wow, manky knows about baseball history pre-Jeter!)

 

If Jetes could play with those roles, he still wouldn't be better than Joe Mauer in 2009.

 

You may not, but record books say otherwise.

(And you forgot your "promise" not to talk about Jetes for a "few" days ...)

 

I made a vow not to talk about the Captain for a few days, you can discuss him on the running thread.

Just wondering, how fast do you think pitchers threw in the 1880s? It's a wonder more players weren't killed with the mound being that close.

 

Manky has the right to his opinion, Manky does not have the right to his own way of keeping records.

The correct answer is Williamson.

 

No I didn't, he was already brought up 3 times in this thread before I said his name.

 

I would like to change a few things in the record books