baseball trivia

Enlighten us.

 

All of Mitch Albom's APSE awards go to Jon Saraceno.

(Seriously Manky, The Beard is getting jealous of your Jetes love.)

 

Man, that Babe Ruth went from 29 home runs one season to 54. He must have been on the juice.

 

I've said this before but baseball needs to fix the stats from the steroid era (1993-2006). The players from that era who didn't juice should have 20-40 pts of batting average and at least 15 homers per year added to their numbers.

 

If you're going to do performance art, make it good performance art please.

 

sorry they didn't have the laughing out loud one to post with because that was my actual reaction

 

Is Garvy Cravath any relation to this guy?

 

The Babe liked a drink now and then and there was that Prohibition thing ... he should have been thrown out of baseball.

 

what, no love for Ol' Haas Radbourn's 1884 pitching dominance? His single season record for wins is the ultimate record that will never be broken.

 

Did you know that the original strike zone was determined by the batter telling the umpire what kind of pitch he wanted? If the pitcher didn't deliver that sort of pitch, then it was a ball.

 

And by juice, you mean whiskey and hot dogs.

 

Williamson's record was the result of the Chicago White Stockings playing their home games at Lake Front Park in 1884, with fence distances of 186-300-190.

Before 1884, balls hit over the fence at Lake Shore Park counted as doubles. After the one record-breaking season, the White Stockings moved to West Side Park with more normal dimensions.

BTW, nothing happened in 1900 to magically make it the "modern era" of baseball records.

If you were going to pick a date, 1893, when the pitching distance was set at 60-6, would be the logical dividing point.

Oh and also -- it never took six balls to get a walk.