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n the season ernie banks began his playing career with the kansas city monarchs in 1950 but he would become the chicago cubs first african american player in 1953 as a 22 year old that season he didn t play much a season later he played in 154 games while hitting 275 326 427 with 19 home runs and 79 rbi as he finished second in the rookie of the year voting to wally moon mr cub really introduced himself to the baseball world in 1955 hitting 295 345 596 is impressive for anyone let alone a shortstop but he also broke records vern stephens set the home run mark for shortstops with 39 in 1948 and his following 1950 season of 30 home runs was second on the list actually his 1948 season of 29 was also 3rd and you know what his 1945 season of 24 home runs was tied for fourth with joe cronin s 1940 but ernie banks was about to take the spot of premier power hitting shortstop banks 1955 season was the first for a shortstop to hit 40 home runs his 40th was hit on september 2nd oddly enough it was against moon s cardinals as he eventually hit 44 of course the modern record belongs to alex rodriguez with 57 but by the time banks was done in 1971 he had the top 5 home run hitting seasons by a shortstop with his highest being 47 in 1958 banks would switch to first permanently in 1961 with his best power years behind him as i said alex rodriguez now holds the record for most home runs by a shortstop and he is still the only shortstop to eclipse the 50 homer mark twice he holds 6 of the top 10 spots and ernie banks holds the other four and the 11th spot rich aurilia pops in at 14 stephens is 13th and then miguel tejada bill hall nomar garciaparra barry larkin and cal ripken fall in line hanley ramirez is 21st with 33 last season but only has 19 this season but he probably has the best shot among current shortstops to overtake a rod trivia time i deliberately left out the guy who is 12th on the list who is he and how many did he hit yesterday s answer griffey 56 hr buhner 40 sorrento 31 martinez 28 rodriguez 23 davis 20 wilson 15 cruz 12 cora 11 posted by themarksmith at 9 58 am 3 comments 01 september 2009 walker cooper he and his brother were extremely productive for about 3 or 4 seasons what other brothers have been so productive at the same time and or for the same team because i still find this blog to be a learning experience for me i still run across a lot of names that i don t know and while writing the previous post i ran across a few of them the one i noticed or that intrigued me the most was walker cooper because a he s a catcher and b he hit 30 homers in a season consequently i wanted to find out more and thus william walker cooper was born in atherton missouri on january 8th 1915 before the 1935 season the home state st louis cardinals signed the strong young man 6 3 210 lbs but because st louis had a notoriously good farm system branch rickey was one of the first to actually utilize the farm system in a similar manner to today s teams he had trouble reaching the major leagues he spent six years in the minors until finally getting his chance in 1941 but a broken collarbone limited his playing time the following season 1942 began a long streak of success for the young backstop he made his first all star team and his stats were impressive enough to earn him an 11th place finish in the mvp voting mort cooper however finished first to make things worse mort was walker s brother and they played on the same team mort finished the season with a 22 7 record and 1 78 era in the first of three consecutive dominant seasons the two teamed up to help the cardinals win the 42 world series over defending champion new york yankees walker improved his stats the next season and finished 2nd in the mvp voting mort finished 5th but the cardinals lost the world series rematch against the yankees 1944 was another fine season as the cooper brothers finished 8th and 9th in the mvp voting walker was 8th and when the cardinals made their 3rd consecutive world series they beat the crosstown st louis browns cooper left for the navy in 1945 and missed most of the season and when he returned he and the cardinals had a disagreement over compensation the cardinals sold him to the giants 1946 was an okay season but he really knocked it out of the park a career high 35 times in 1947 he remained productive for the next few seasons but he never stayed in one place for too long playing in new york cincinnati and milwaukee by 1952 cooper was no longer so durable but he stuck around for 6 more seasons until he retired in 1957 at the time he retired his daughter married don blasingame and he remarked when you have a daughter old enough to marry a player it s time to retire cool fact i couldn t find a place for walker cooper holds the record along with dave kingman and dave winfield with a grand slam for 5 different teams posted by themarksmith at 8 05 pm 1 comment this day in baseball history september 1st 1947 williard marshall on september 1 1947 the new york giants hit their 183rd 184th and 185th home runs of the season so we all know what player has hit the most home runs in a single season barry bonds with 73 but who knows what team has the most home runs in a single season answer a little later from 1936 1947 the new york yankees held that claim with 184 home runs hit during their 1936 season but oddly enough that did not include any contribution from babe ruth lou gehrig 49 home runs however had a huge impact on that total joe dimaggio 29 and bill dickey 22 were the only other two yankees to eclipse 20 home runs but the rest of the starting lineup with the exception of jake powell 7 hit double digits they were also the beneficiaries of 6 home runs by pitchers including 5 from red ruffing but the new york giants took the yankees down in 1947 and they did it quickly with a month left in the season they used 3 more home runs to officially claim to have the most powerful lineup in baseball history to that point willie mays was still 4 years away from his entrance into baseball so he wasn t part of the offensive explosion johnny mize led the way with a career high 51 home runs following him were a couple of 30 homer guys in williard marshall 36 and walker cooper 35 and young bobby thomson would add 29 in his breakout season buddy kerr was the only starter to fail to hit double digits coincidentally like powell with 7 and they also like the yankees received 6 home runs from pitchers with 4 from clint hartung the giants went on to hit 221 home runs for the season okay so what s your guess for team with the most home runs in a season well the 2004 houston astros hit 247 but that s only the most for an nl team the winner is the 1997 seattle mariners with 264 ken griffey jr of course leads the list with 56 round trippers oddly neither team holds the record for most home runs at home or on the road the 1996 colorado rockies not surprisingly hold the record with 149 home runs and the 2001 san francisco giants behind bonds 73 37 at home 36 on the road hold the away record with 138 trivia time put these players in order from most home runs to fewest for the 1997 seattle mariners griffey edgar martinez alex rodriguez dan wilson paul sorrento russ davis jay buhner joey cora and jose cruz good luck yesterday s answer she was indeed talking about pete rose posted by themarksmith at 4 19 pm 2 comments 31 august 2009 this day in baseball history august 31st 1969 nothing like a good kiss from a buxom blonde to get the old stick going huh on august 31 1969 morganna uses her magic powers to get clete boyer back on track nerd alert in arthurian legend morganna is a sorceress that is expelled from court by guinevere for having an affair pissed she plots against guinevere while continuing to hone her magical craft under merlin and she also attempts to kill arthur her brother a few times in the end however she brings arthur to avalon where she heals him so that he can return in the future in britain s greatest need some say winston churchill was that man during wwii anyway morganna roberts from louisville kentucky woohoo was a relatively popular entertainer known for her extremely large breasts she appeared in playboy a few times and she even made an appearance in the movie kingpin in reference to her legendary tatas she once quipped that dolly parton was flat chested she however was more known for her baseball escapades she frequently came on to the field during games to plant a kiss on an unsuspecting player and consequently she received the nickname kissing bandit she kissed or at least tried to kiss george brett nolan ryan cal ripken jr johnny bench steve garvey and don mattingly among others after each instance she was arrested for disorderly conduct on august 31 1969 clete boyer became another recipient of her advances and it came just in time mired in a 1 for 17 slump boyer needed something anything to get him going and morganna ran on to the field to give him a kiss boyer followed that up with a sheepish grin and an rbi single two hits later he had a nice night over his next 15 at bats he laced 8 hits trivia time morganna noted my career began with a bet and his ended with one in reference to her first kiss who did she kiss tuesday s answer allman brothers band posted by themarksmith at 10 58 am 1 comment 25 august 2009 this day in baseball history august 25th 1952 he had 4 no hitters in the minors on august 25 1952 virgil trucks throws a no hitter virgil trucks began his career in 1941 as a 24 year old but he received his first piece of major playing time in 1942 he won 30 games over the next 2 seasons before losing essentially 2 seasons to world war ii but he came back stronger than before over the course of the next 4 seasons he had double digit wins in each season leading up to his very impressive 1949 season in which he went 19 10 with a 2 81 era and league leading 152 strikeouts after losing most of 1950 with arm injuries he responded with a solid 1951 season 1952 was an up and down year for trucks on the one hand he lost 19 games with an era close to 4 on the other he accomplished a feat that only johnny van der meer allie reynolds and nolan reynolds have done in the history of baseball throw 2 no hitters in the same season on may 15th he dismantled the washington senators for a 1 0 victory three months later on august 25th he threw his second no hitter another 1 0 win this time against the defending american league champion new york yankees at yankee stadium but the 19 losses loomed larger than the 2 no hitters and trucks was sent to the st louis browns the tigers regretted that trucks won 20 games the next season on his way to a 5th place voting in the mvp race the browns traded him to the white sox mid way through the 1953 season to the chicago white sox and the white sox didn t regret their decision he won 15 of his 20 for them and he went on to win 19 and 13 games over the next two seasons after the 1955 season the tigers traded for him and they lived to regret that decision now 39 he was no longer able to hold up for an entire season trivia time virgil trucks nephew is butch trucks who is the founder of what band yesterday s answer put names on the back of uniforms posted by themarksmith at 10 13 am 4 comments 24 august 2009 this day in baseball history august 24th 1952 lost his leg in world war ii when an artillery piece crushed it on august 24 1952 the fans finally get a say bill veeck was one of the most imaginative men in baseball and his ideas brought people to the ballpark his love of baseball came from his father who was president of the cubs when the young veeck was growing up and he probably learned some business from his old man as well veeck once argued all i ever said is that you can draw more people with a losing team plus bread and circuses than with a losing team and a long still silence and you know what he was right veeck became the owner of the cleveland indians in 1946 as his first enterprise he immediately put team games on the radio to draw interest to the team a year later he signed larry doby to be the first african american player in the american league and he signed satchel paige as well but veeck also had a zany side he hired max patkin a clown to coach third the american league as always was furious that veeck would even think of trying something so out of the ordinary but veeck only cared about what the fans thought they paid the bills and the fans loved it veeck however was not one to really settle down a divorce forced him to sell the indians and after remarrying he bought the broken down st louis browns the worse of the two st louis teams veeck knew that the city wasn t big enough for both the browns and the cardinals and consequently he began trying to drive the cardinals out of town he hired rogers hornsby to be the manager and dizzy dean to be the announcer to bring more cardinals fans to the browns when the cardinals owner was convicted of tax evasion he thought he had won but when anheiser busch bought the team he was up a creek he immediately began looking to move the browns to baltimore but the league voted against him veeck ultimately realized that the owners simply didn t like him and therefore he sold the team which eventually did move to baltimore to become the orioles but before he left he created his legacy the most famous stunt was hiring eddie gaedel to bat but on august 24 1952 he several front office personnel and a thousand fans sat behind home plate with signs saying yes or no they used those signs to determine managerial decisions and whaddayaknow the browns won 5 3 to snap a 3 game losing streak do you think royals fans would like this idea for managerial and general managerial decisions trivia time when bill veeck became the owner of the chicago white sox he started something now standard for 25 of 30 teams what was he the first to do yesterday s answer with 3 40 homer seasons in his first 4 years mathews propelled himself over elliot during the 1956 season posted by themarksmith at 11 04 am 2 comments 23 august 2009 cano v pedroia sorry yankees fan cano s really good but might mite is still just a biiiit better joel sherman asked a few baseball executives who would you rather have for the next 5 seasons cano or pedroia all of them responded pedroia mike avisa then took a little bit of a closer look and stated that cano was the better player sorry but pedroia is the better player first off even though the executives were right they were wrong both sherman and avisa correctly point out that the executives are stereotyping cano a bit latin american players are often made out to be lazy and stubborn and when that happens it is almost impossible for them to shrug that off even if he was lazy last season a he hasn t been this season and b does it really matter how lazy he is if he still produces i know theoretically it does but in practicality so we can drop that argument and let s look at the stats avisa...