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misc baseball gathering assorted items of baseball history and trivia misc baseball gathering assorted items of baseball history and trivia jimmy johnston a man named jimmy johnston holds the mlb record for best batting average in a 7 game stretch due to hitting 24 30 in a week in june 1923 perhaps you ve never heard of him but he check https www retrosheet org boxesetc j pjohnj107 htm twice had 200 hit seasons playing for the brooklyn dodgers typically and hit 295 for his career with nearly 1500 hits johnston died in tennessee in 1967 published in uncategorized on june 22 2023 at 5 21 pm leave a comment summarizing mlb history here via retrosheet are 2 screenshots of the statistical history of the 30 current mlb franchises published in uncategorized on january 14 2023 at 6 51 pm leave a comment some notes on johnny mize mize is one of the fairly little known sluggers from the time between ruth and mantle mays aaron etc in fact considering that he won 4 home run titles he might be the most accomplished yet least remembered major power threat of that roughly 20 year span here are some notable things about his career he played roughly equal numbers of seasons with three powerhouse franchises the cardinals giants and yankees mize hit 43 triples in 3 seasons 1938 40 but i have the image of him being a lumbering slugger led the league in runs scored doubles triples homers rbis average and slugging at various points in his career he wound that career up by winning 5 titles with the yankees 1949 53 i hadn t noticed that he hit 3 homers in the 52 series at age 39 mize was sold to the reds after the 1934 season without having yet played a game in the majors but returned to the cardinals due to injuries pelvic bone spurs according to his sabr bio he sounds a little like david ortiz in multiple respects most obviously both were first rate sluggers whose careers blossomed somewhat late and won 3 or more world series published in uncategorized on september 18 2021 at 6 21 pm leave a comment john montgomery ward ward was along with al spalding one of the first impresarios of professional baseball a player both pitching and playing the field businessman lawyer and manager his book base ball how to become a player with the origin history and explanation of the game is available for free at project gutenberg here https www gutenberg org ebooks 19975 published in uncategorized on july 20 2021 at 2 14 pm comments 1 mlb attendance so far in 2021 the rangers are averaging 25 570 per game the blue jays 1 497 that s the gap between 1st and 30th the astros are 2nd in attendance 18 533 the braves who just started allowing full capacity crowds are 3rd 17 733 the per game average across mlb is a bit under 10 000 published in uncategorized on may 9 2021 at 2 31 pm leave a comment completing the mlb jobs circuit bucky walters was one of the 1920s to 1950s pitchers who had a long career won about 200 games with an unremarkable win loss percentage and is little remembered today in walters case this is despite him winning the national league mvp award in 1939 the purpose of this post is to highlight that walters in the course of his life in major league baseball did a circuit of the available jobs on the field the circuit is coach umpire manager infielder outfielder pitcher walters began as a position player mostly third base but also a smattering of games at second base and the outfield became a pitcher umpired two games in 1942 and 1947 presumably as an emergency fill in when a regular umpire fell sick or missed a train then managed the reds for a year and a half in 1948 and 1949 and then was a coach for three different national league teams in the 1950s here are links to his retrosheet page and sabr biography https www retrosheet org boxesetc w pwaltb102 htm bucky walters published in uncategorized on march 1 2021 at 11 16 am leave a comment the 1986 chicago cubs a post on this blog talked about jamie moyer and greg maddux on the 1986 aaa iowa cubs moyer and maddux would pitch nearly 120 innings for the big league team in 1986 what s intriguing about the 86 cubs is the array of top level talent on a team that went 70 90 here is a list of notable position players at wrigley that year jody davis leon durham ryne sandberg ron cey shawon dunston gary matthews keith moreland davey lopes chris speier manny trillo rafael palmeiro and pitchers dennis eckersley rick sutcliffe scott sanderson moyer maddux lee smith published in uncategorized on february 1 2021 at 6 40 pm comments 2 a reading suggestion you may have heard of christy mathewson s book pitching in a pinch it is a worthwhile look at major league baseball in the early 1910s seen from the perspective of perhaps the greatest pitcher of that time you can read it on project gutenberg at http www gutenberg org files 33291 33291 h 33291 h htm published in uncategorized on january 1 2021 at 2 06 pm leave a comment landmark mlb seasons at 40 year intervals major league baseball has had landmark seasons at 40 year intervals starting with 1901 when the american league began here are the next three intervals 1941 pearl harbor it happened after the season was over but some players had already joined the military baseball of course wasn t the same after the war 1981 the strike an unprecedented lengthy mid season work stoppage one of the impacts was establishing the precedent of a division playoff series though in a different form than the series that began in 1995 2021 whatever it will be like probably will be another landmark season the point here is not to propose that professional baseball is governed by 40 year cycles it s to note these years as food for thought to consider them and how mlb changed over each 40 year period published in uncategorized on december 11 2020 at 8 33 pm leave a comment roger maris after baseball maris got a major distributorship for budweiser in florida that began right after his playing career ended he operated the distributorship for longer than he was an mlb player and it might be a bigger legacy than his baseball career his family had a long legal battle with anheuser busch after he died and settled the battle over the distributorship for a sum that was much larger than what maris had earned playing baseball here are two links to news stories about the battle https www gainesville com article lk 20050824 news 604167117 gs https www latimes com archives la xpm 2005 aug 24 fi maris24 story html published in uncategorized on december 1 2020 at 5 02 pm comments 1 older entries pages about video and audio from baseball s early years categories 1850s 1870s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s perfect games top posts rod carew s seven steals of home in 1969 the murder of lyman bostock in 1978 michael jordan in the arizona fall league in 1994 baseball in the last years of the soviet union rickey henderson and the 1980 a s thoughts on bill veeck s death in 1986 more baseball history 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