Ichiro 4000 Hits RT

You'd think that someone as smart as yourself, and someone who is so versed in baseball history and may know what a 1915-era mitt looked like, would realize the word "glove" was inadvertently left off. Keep finding those red herrings.

Every team had private trains in those days, when train travel was the norm. These trains had sleeping cars. If a team did make a trip directly from NYC to St. Louis (maybe once a year) they had ample opportunity to rest.

And all of MLB was located within two time zones. Half the National League was located in New York and Pennsylvania. Another team was in nearly Boston. Half the AL was in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and DC.

 

Red herring? You made a sloppy mistake and you can't even show a sense of humor about it.That's a failing on your part, not mine.

Private trains or not, da man has a point. Travel distances may be further, but technological progress has made it far easier.

 

Teams back then only played 154 games and also played more scheduled doubleheaders, which meant more travel days.

Heck, by the 1930s most teams had acquired buses, which added to travel flexibility.

Not sure what the above has to do with Ichiro, but that's the SJ world we live in.

 

Yes, far easier for the Mets to go to Los Angeles, then San Francisco, then Colorado and then home than it was for the NY Giants to go to Boston, return to NYC for a series in Brooklyn, then take a two-hour train ride to Philly, because the Mets can fly and the Giants had to take a train.

 

Not just because they can fly. Trains are better now, too.

But hey, keep on trying to prop Suzuki up on the level of Cobb. At least you believe it.

 

Suzuki.