Baseball Quiz: Who are the seven to score 2,000 runs in their career? [No trick answers, no guys who played in the 1880s, a la No. 8 on the list, Cap Anson with 1,999 who started his career in 1871…and a further hint…No. 9 is Stan Musial with 1,949 and No. 10 is Lou Gehrig with 1,888.] Answer below.
Duke Snider
“He was the Duke of Flatbush, one of the Boys of Summer – and one-third of the holy trinity of center-fielders who owned New York during baseball’s golden era.
“Duke Snider, who died Sunday at 84, was the last surviving position player on perhaps the most beloved baseball team ever, the immortal Brooklyn Dodgers.
“The Yankees, in their majestic domination of the game, may have had a Sultan of Swat. But Dem Bums required only a duke to lead them.
“And lead them he did – with both his power and his fielding. The numbers more than justified his election to the Hall of Fame: a .295 lifetime average, 407 HRs and 1,333 RBIs, with five straight seasons of 40-plus homers (1953-57) and six with 100-RBI.
“The Dodgers were more than just heroes to their fans in Brooklyn. They were the guys next door – who lived in the borough, rode the subway to work on Bedford Avenue.
“Yankee fans had Mickey Mantle, and Giant fans swore by Willie Mays, the Say Hey Kid. But out in Flatbush, there was only Duke Snider.
“Giants legend Willie McCovey summed him up best: ‘He’s just a first-class guy, that’s all.’ RIP.”
“Florence Cozzolino remembers the man who used to live down the street from her at 178 Marine Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. She and other children from the neighborhood would gather outside his house, waiting for him to return home so they could ask for his autograph.
“Her neighbor was not an actor. He was another sort of Brooklyn celebrity: He was a Dodger.
“Mrs. Cozzolino lived a few houses down from Duke Snider…These days, no one brags about living next door to professional baseball players, because the only people who can afford to live next to them have too much money to brag about that sort of thing. But in the 1950s in Bay Ridge, Dodgers fans lived next door to Dodgers players.
“Mr. Snider and a few of his teammates who lived in the neighborhood – like Pee Wee Reese or Carl Erskine – would car-pool together to their home games at Ebbets Field or the Polo Grounds, where their National League rivals, the New York Giants, played. Mr. Snider used to go to his neighbor Gus Barwood’s block parties in the summer, used to greet the children and teenagers waiting for him outside 178 Marine Avenue after a game….
“Mr. Snider left Brooklyn when the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles in 1958. But he would return to New York – playing for the Mets in 1963 – and would occasionally return to Marine Avenue.
“One afternoon in the early 1980s, Hank D’Amato opened his front door, stepped into his house and found Mr. Snider in his kitchen, having a cup of coffee with his wife, Karen. It was Mr. D’Amato’s kitchen, but it used to be Mr. Snider’s. The D’Amatos bought the two-story house at 178 Marine Avenue in 1975 from Mr. Snider’s old landlords, the O’Rourke family.
“ ‘He had his World Series ring on,’ Mr. D’Amato said of Mr. Snider. ‘He was just a gentleman through and through. He gave you a sense that being a ballplayer back in those days was completely different from what it is today. You lived in a neighborhood. You drove your own car.’”
“The teams on which Snider played won five National League pennants before they finally won a World Series.
“But in the hearts and minds and baseball souls of those survivors who remember those days, and in the collective psyche of those descendant to who they passed the evergreen memories of that exciting time, the names of the regulars still live in the imaginary Valhalla that dreamers construct for their baseball heirs…catcher Roy Campanella…first baseman Gil Hodges…second baseman Jackie Robinson…shortstop Pee Wee Reese…third baseman Billy Cox…left fielder (usually) Junior Gilliam…right fielder Carl Furillo and center fielder Duke Snider.
“With the passing of The Duke, they are all gone now.
“So is Ebbets Field, a unique place more community lodge than baseball park – the hub of a deliciously fanatical mad, mad world where fans seemed close enough to touch the players – and some tried. Ebbets Field, the baseball park where the delightfully outrageous Brooklyn Sym-phony (trumpet, trombone, cymbal, bass and snare drums) roamed the stands in battered top hats every day without pay – Ebbets Field, home to the ear-jarring, soul-beseeching Hilda Chester – a large woman with a cowbell whose teeth-grating sound rallied the locals to almost primal response.
“And those Boys of Summer recalled the way it was long after their legs and their waistlines betrayed the marvelous skills they displayed there.
“For as long as this game is played anywhere in America, the team that Roger Kahn called ‘The Boys of Summer’ lives on each time pitchers and catchers report for spring training – each time baseball plays its preseason schedule – each time they bring out the bunting and drape it over stadium railings the days the Yankees and the Mets launch another season – each time someone who once stood on a street corner by a candy store and participated in the five-boroughs-and-across-the-Hudson debate that raged through soft summer nights that all of us will never forget….
“Three center fielders…three Hall of Famers…three baseball heroes for the ages. Say it and savor it:
“So we argued into the night. And nobody ever won because they were really a baseball trinity and in the back roads of our collective, we will have them forever.”
From 1954 through ’57, when Mays, Mantle and Snider all played full seasons in New York, Snider led the two others in both home runs and RBIs. Snider’s debut with the Dodgers was April 17, 1947, which wasn’t memorable for anything he did. Instead, it was the day Jackie Robinson got his first base hit, two days after he broke the color barrier. Snider himself, though, didn’t become a full-timer until 1949.
Snider’s Dodgers won National League pennants in 1947 (though Snider played sparingly that year), ‘49, ’52, ’53 (Roger Kahn’s “Boys of Summer” team), ’55 and ’56. Unfortunately, Brooklyn also had the misfortune of being in the same era as the Yankees, who defeated them in each of those years except ’55. Duke then moved with the Dodgers to L.A. in ’58 and after spending a season acclimating himself to the incredibly stupid dimensions of the Los Angeles Coliseum, which was only 250 feet down the left-field line but 390 in right (compared to the lefty-swinging Snider’s preferred 297 down the right-field line at Ebbets Field), Snider hit 23 homers and batted .308 for the World Series winning L.A. team of ’59 that defeated the Chicago White Sox.
Snider is still the only player to hit 4 home runs, twice, in Series play (’52 and ’55) and had 11 overall in 133 Series at bats. At the end of his career, he returned to New York in 1963 as a Met, where he hit his 400th homer and got his 2,000th hit, and then finished it off with a poor season in San Francisco before retiring after the ’64 season at age 38.
Alas, in 1995 he pleaded guilty to federal income tax evasion charges (along with Willie McCovey) of failing to report more than $97,000 in earnings from autograph and memorabilia sales. Back on those great Dodgers teams, Snider and Jackie Robinson were the highest-paid at about $40,000 a year.
And despite being one of the great center fielders in the history of the game, it took Duke Snider 11 years to get into the Hall of Fame. In his first year he received just 17.0% of the vote; yet another reason why those crying over Barry Larkin and Jeff Bagwell’s vote totals in the last Hall balloting need to pipe down.
Finally, note to Stu W., who grew up following Brooklyn. I do agree that Snider benefited mightily not only from the short porch in right at Ebbets Field (even with the high wall), but from the fact the opposition ran out many a righty hurler to combat the otherwise all right-handed Dodgers lineup, including fellow sluggers Hodges, Furillo and Campanella.
Ollie Matson, RIP
While traveling last week I didn’t have a chance to comment on the death of this NFL Hall of Famer at the age of 80. After a 14-year career, Matson retired in 1966 with what was a then NFL record 12,884 combined net yards. He did everything; rushing, receiving, returning kicks, and at 6 feet 2 and 210-220 lbs., he was both exceptionally strong and fast. He also won a bronze medal in the 400 meters at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and a silver in the 4X400 relay, after which he kicked off his NFL career with the Chicago Cardinals, for whom he was co-Rookie of the Year. He also played for the Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Lions.
Over his career Matson averaged 4.4 per carry in rushing for 5,173 yards, caught 222 passes for 3,285 yards and had 9 kick returns for touchdowns (6 KR, 3 PR). He also played in six Pro Bowls.
Ollie Matson was a big-time figure while at the University of San Francisco, where he rushed for an NCAA-record 3,166 yards in three years as a starter and, as a senior, led the Dons to a 9-0 record, but the team was snubbed when it came to post-season play. Matson was the nation’s leading rusher with 1,566 yards and 21 touchdowns, but he finished ninth in the Heisman Trophy voting and was All-America only as a defensive back. You see, Ollie Matson was black.
Now to be fair, the San Francisco Dons had played a major-college schedule in prior years but the likes of Cal and Stanford dropped them when San Francisco began to improve so as Mike Kupper of the Los Angeles Times notes, “USF had to fill its schedule as best it could, playing Idaho, San Jose State twice, the Camp Pendleton Marines and the San Diego Naval Training Center, among other teams.” In a game against Fordham, Matson “twice muffed kickoffs, only to pick up the ball each time and run more than 90 yards for a touchdown.”
“There was speculation that the Dons might play in the Orange Bowl game, but Coach Joe Kuharich told his players that, in informal discussions, he’d learned that if an invitation were issued, it would be for the team’s white players only, excluding Matson and Burl Toler, the team’s other African American.
“ ‘We were shocked,’ said Bob St. Claire (teammate and future NFLer). ‘We didn’t even vote on such a stupid request.’
“Two of the other major bowls, the Cotton and Sugar, also were played in the South where integrated teams weren’t welcome, and the Rose Bowl was tied to the Big Ten and Pacific Coast Conference. So the Dons stayed home on New Year’s Day 1952, and USF, unable to make up a $70,000 football deficit, shortly thereafter dropped the sport.”
–Barring a miracle, the NFL lockout will commence at midnight Thursday and it could easily be summer before there are any further substantive discussions between the two parties. The draft, however, goes on. Of immediate concern to about 570 veterans and free agents is they will not receive roster bonuses or be able to sign free agent contracts. On ownership’s side, season ticket sales will plummet during the lockout. The final, final deadline for salvaging any part of the season would appear to be mid-November, after which the NFL could cram in an 8-game regular season (December and January after a 3-week training camp) and then extend the postseason through February. We sure don’t want that.
—College Basketball Review
Men’s AP Poll
1. Ohio State
2. Kansas
3. BYU*
t-4. Duke
t-4. Pitt
6. Purdue
7. Texas
8. Notre Dame
9. San Diego State…where they should be
10. Wisconsin
15. St. John’s…no longer the best kept secret…they’ve arrived
*And then the depression set in for Cougars fans. Out of left field, BYU dismissed starting forward Brandon Davies, a critical component to the team’s success, averaging 11 points and 6 rebounds per game, for violating the school’s honor code. The BYU code is indeed strict.
–Be honest
–Live a chaste and virtuous life
–Obey the law and all campus policies
–Respect others
–Abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee and substance abuse
–Participate regularly in church services
–Observe the Dress and Grooming Standards
–Encourage others in their commitment to comply with the Honor Code
But in Davies’ case the violation just occurred and I’m guessing he is playing come NCAA tournament time (missing the conference tourney…just a total guess on my part). School officials are to address the dismissal after Wednesday’s night game with New Mexico and this column is posted before then.
Notre Dame destroyed Villanova on Monday, 93-72, behind a school-record 20 threes, 20 of 32 from downtown. Goodness gracious.
Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg, with his win over then-No. 1 Duke, is now 3-3 against the top-ranked team since he took over at VT before the 2003-04 season. But then on Tuesday night, the Hokies lost to Boston College and they are right back on the bubble for the NCAAs.
Huge game Thursday. Wake Forest, 1-13 in ACC play, against Georgia Tech, 3-11. It’s on ESPN3, folks, so if your family has just one computer, I’d camp out now so that you have first dibs.
[Ughh…former Wake ballplayer Jamie Skeen transferred to VCU a few years ago and is averaging 14 points and 8 rebounds for them. What hurts even more is what he told Sporting News in talking of his days at Wake. “It was a small campus, and I saw the same people every day. It was like the movie Groundhog Day,” Skeen said. “The only time I was happy was when I went to practice.” Geezuz, I had a good time at Wake, Jamie.]
–Sporting News asked their draft experts “Who is a risky pick” in April’s NFL draft. Former scout Russ Lande said, “Cam Newton. Although he’s a very gifted guy, there are a lot of baggage questions from his time at Florida and the junior college.”
“Cam Newton is back in the news. This time, neither his father nor his father’s attorney nor his university nor his university’s attorney is involved. It’s just Cam being Cam, telling Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, ‘I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.’
“Is he considering taking his talents to South Beach?
“If there are NFL teams out there looking for a 6-6, 250-pound quarterback who dominated college football this past season and obviously thinks quite highly of himself and his ability, Newton probably is their man.
“If there are NFL teams out there who believe the kid is full of himself but nonetheless need a young quarterback, one will probably swallow hard and still go with Newton as their guy. After all, if thinking highly of oneself and telling everyone about it were a disqualifier in sports these days, there would be an awful lot of empty spaces on benches throughout American sports, from youth leagues to the pros.
“Newton is already insufferable, no doubt about it, but he’s also two-thirds right when he declared himself football player, entertainer and icon. Outside of the orange and blue part of the state of Alabama, the icon business is nonsense, at least for now. But months before he takes his first snap in the NFL, Newton most definitely is an entertainer….
“His life became a soap opera with startling details from his past woven into the story line of an unexpectedly scintillating 2010 football season. He was charged with stealing a laptop at the University of Florida in 2008, throwing it out his dorm window when the police showed up. Later, there was word he was about to be kicked out of Florida for not one, not two, but three instances of academic cheating. He escaped to junior college just in time, then was shopped around by his father in a pay-for-play scheme for as much as $200,000. But the NCAA believed the son never knew what the father was doing, so it allowed him to keep playing. And play he did, all the way to the BCS national title and the Heisman.
“Too bad the mischievous New York Jets don’t need a quarterback; Newton seems a perfect fit. Clearly his path to the NFL was a bit different from that of, say, Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers.
“ ‘I was just thinking about current starting star quarterbacks in the NFL, and I can’t see any of them ever really saying something like that,’ Green Bay Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk told the NFL Network.
“He’s right, of course, not that Newton would understand or care what he is talking about. Consider the adulation he received the past couple of years, the way he moved effortlessly from trouble at Florida through more trouble at Auburn right into college sports superstardom. Why should he think like the rest of us? He seems to believe he’s untouchable, and so far, it looks as if he’s right. Staying one step ahead of the law, he became famous almost overnight. In his 21-year-old world, that has to qualify him for icon status….
“When and if Newton plays this coming season, one can imagine the professional welcome he will receive from NFL defenders. Then again, 15 years ago, another confident young athlete, a golfer, turned professional as veterans scoffed at the notion that he would be able to win immediately. Two victories in three months stopped that conversation about Tiger Woods in its tracks.
–The Jets released pass rusher Vernon Gholston, the sixth overall pick in the 2008 NFL Draft. As noted by the Wall Street Journal’s Michael Salfino, “What is shocking is that he never recorded a single sack, something no other defensive end drafted in the top 10 picks can claim since the league began officially tracking that statistic in 1982.”
–I didn’t have a chance last time to get into a few golf tidbits as a result of last weekend’s action. For the first time since 1992, Europeans occupy the first four notches on the World Golf Rankings:
1. Martin Kaymer
2. Lee Westwood
3. Luke Donald
4. Graeme McDowell
5. Tiger…and falling like a stone
Plus, Europe is also represented in the top ten by No. 7 Paul Casey and No. 8 Rory McIlroy.
But there was something special at the PGA Tour stop in Mexico last weekend as well. 53-year-old John Cook finished third. Heck, Cook hadn’t teed it up in a PGA Tour event since 2007. I mean this is awesome. [Tom Lehman, T-13, and Tom Pernice Jr., T-19, also represented the over-50 set with distinction in Mexico.]
–According to Arabian Business magazine, Tiger Woods has been paid $55 million to design the golf course in Dubai that I noted a few weeks ago had gone to sand, project pulled, after just six holes were completed because the planned overall $1 billion development has been shelved due to the collapse of the real estate bubble there. But Woods reportedly received $26.25 million in 2006 from the developer and then another $29.16 million in 2008. Heck, if the course had been finished he was to receive an additional $14.6 million upon opening, and then a further $28.8 million for designing a second course. A new property group has come in and officially the initial project has been “suspended.”
–As the New York Post’s Phil Mushnick put it, when it comes to the New York Mets, us fans are “just supposed to buy the tickets, watch the games on TV, pay for the parking, the eats, drinks, yearbooks and souvenirs…and shut up.” Everything else is off limits, it seems.
The more you really stop and think about what the lying Wilpons have done to us, the more pissed off you get. They have been totally treating us like chumps! I should just close down the voting now for “A-Holes of the Year”…it’s Mets ownership hands down.
But wait…there’s more. Hot off the news the Mets had borrowed $25 million from Major League Baseball back in November, which means everything they told us since was a lie, on top of their previous ones, as the New York Post reported on Tuesday, “The cash-starved Mets are desperately seeking a new loan – totaling tens of millions of dollars – to cover their basic operating expenses.
“JPMorgan Chase – which led the banks that loaned the team about $430 million last year – is trying to recruit other institutions to join a syndicate to put together a new loan that would tide the Mets over until they sell a minority stake in the ballclub.”
The Mets’ total outstanding debt is now said to be $505 million, though the team is probably worth $800 million.
–One of the great things about baseball, more so than any other sport, is how you remember the fringe players from your youth, largely because of the powerful images of baseball cards. Such was the case with Greg Goossen, who played for the Mets from 1965-68, and then three other teams in a career that ended in 1970. Goossen had a total of just 460 at bats in his big league career, but I can still see his card. Goossen hit 13 home runs and drove in 44 in those 460 ABs, but in 1969 with the expansion Seattle Pilots, out of nowhere he clubbed 10 of the 13 homers in just 139 ABs.
Goossen died the other day at age 65 and what was particularly poignant was he was found dead in his Sherman Oaks, Calif., home just hours before he was to be part of the inaugural class for a sports hall of fame at Notre Dame High School in L.A., where he graduated in 1964 as a standout football and baseball player. The Dodgers signed him to a six-figure bonus, huge back then, but in ’65 the Mets picked him up on waivers. After baseball, Goossen worked as a stand-in for actor Gene Hackman and helped his brother, Joe, as a boxing trainer, working with middleweight Michael Nunn and others.
—Barry Bonds’ former trainer Greg Anderson once again told a federal judge he would not testify in Bonds’ upcoming perjury trial. Judge Susan Illston then told Anderson he would be jailed for the length of the trial, which is expected to take at least two weeks. Bonds was in the courtroom, Tuesday, but did not make eye contact with Anderson.
–The New York Post had its 15th-annual “Best and Worst of N.Y. Pro Sports,” including some of the following.
1. Bart Scott, Jets… “Filiblustering linebacker has all of two sacks and one forced fumble in two seasons of talking like he’s Jack Ham.”
1. Francisco Rodriguez, Mets… “Little children who watched him beat up his girlfriend’s father outside the Mets’ big, happy family room are more mature. Franchise would like to manage its anger by not letting him reach 55-game trigger on $17.5 million option.”
1. Fred & Jeff Wilpon, Mets… “Fans want owners who will compete with the Phillies and Yankees by hook or crook. Instead see a team a long way from clawing back into contention.”
2. Oliver Perez, Mets… “Iconic figure of franchise failure.”
3. Matt Dodge, Giants… “Contempt has no bounds after failure to kick out of bounds. Unlike this punter, it will take a long time for fans to drop it.”
–Thru Tuesday’s play, the New Jersey Devils, who were trashed unmercifully, including in this space, early on, are on one hell of a roll. The Devils started off 10-29-2 but are a startling 17-2-2 since, the best stretch in their history, and are back in the playoff chase. Star Ilya Kovalchuk has also stepped up his play and now has 21 goals. This would be a helluva story if they can keep it up and get in the postseason. But it could be at the expense of my Rangers who are in freefall.
–Tennis star Serena Williams has had a medical “emergency,” a reported embolism in her lung. She has had one issue after another after cutting her foot on some glass in a restaurant and has not played a competitive match since winning Wimbledon on July 3. Which is why you freakin’ wear shoes when going out!
“103…Three-pointers attempted – with eight made – by West Burlington (Iowa) High in its 109-25 loss to Danville on Feb. 12, a new national record.”
–We note the passing of actress Jane Russell, 89. It was way back in 1941 that a Howard Hughes production, “The Outlaw,” brought the sexy Russell to prominence. Hughes had to fight with censors to get the film released, even though it was very tame by today’s standards. Russell became a major pinup for World War II GIs.
Hughes, the famous eccentric billionaire, took over the direction for “The Outlaw” after Howard Hawks walked out because Hughes was such a taskmaster. As Russell later said, “Hughes directed the whole picture – for nine bloody months.” The movie didn’t gaine wide distribution for years and received scathing reviews, with the Los Angeles Times calling it “one of the weirdest Western pictures that ever unreeled before the public.”
Russell had a 20-year contract paying her $1,000 a week with Hughes’ RKO studio but then he sold it and, while she continued to get the money, Russell made only a handful of flicks after “The Outlaw,” one of which was “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” where Russell starred alongside Marilyn Monroe, five years her junior.
For a different generation, she was probably best known for her commercials for Playtex.
–And the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War One, Frank Buckles, died at age 110. Buckles had lied about his age to join the army at 16. In recent years he said, “I knew there’d be only one (survivor) someday. I didn’t think it would be me.”
In World War II, Buckles drove an ambulance and while working as a civilian in Manila, he was captured by the Japanese and held prisoner for 38 months.
Supposedly there are just two survivors of World War One now, a 109-year-old Australian man and a 110-year-old British woman.
“A 63-year-old Swiss tourist died in Southern Thailand when the male elephant she was riding had an altercation with another, World Radio Switzerland reports. She fell to the ground and was trampled…Other tourists on the ride fell off their elephants, and some were injured.”
“Sunday, two Korean tourists were injured in India in another elephant fiasco. According to reports, a couple was seriously hurt when the elephant they were on fought with another at the Amber Fort in the Jaipur area….
“The Times of India has a report that says the elephants involved were feuding. [“You’re a Dumbo!” “You’re a jerk!” “Oh yeah?” “Yeah.”]
–And this sickening AP story, further confirmation Man will never sniff the Top 100 on the “All-Species List.”
“An injured owl that was kicked off the field by a player during a match between Colombian football clubs has died from shock.
“Vet Camilo Tapia said the owl went into shock after having been taken in for treatment on Sunday.
“The owl’s injuries at first were thought to have been minor, including a small fracture to its right leg.
“The owl landed near the corner of the field on Sunday during a match in Barranquilla between home club Atletico Junior and Deportivo Pereira.
“Pereira defender Luis Moreno walked over and kicked the owl about three meters to get it off the field.
“The owl served as the mascot for Atletico Junior and Moreno later apologized to home fans….
“Fans at the match yelled ‘murderer, murderer’ when Moreno kicked the bird, who was seen by supporters as a good-luck charm.
“ ‘I want to apologize to the fans,’ Moreno said after the match. ‘I was not trying to hurt the owl. I did it to see if it would fly.’”
What an ass. I saw a picture of the doomed bird lying on the ground after being pummeled. Pitiful. Man drops to No. 134, behind the salamander and garden snake.
–So I said a few weeks ago I never liked Randy Newman and I just have to note he was the only winner on Oscar night who didn’t acknowledge the presenter with at least a polite hug. Ordinarily I wouldn’t care, but who did Newman dis? Bar Chat fave Jennifer Hudson, that’s who. Totally classless, Newman.
Top 3 songs for the week 2/28/81: #1 “I Love A Rainy Night” (Eddie Rabbitt) #2 “9 To 5” (Dolly Parton) #3 “Woman” (John Lennon)…and…#4 “Celebration” (Kool & The Gang) #5 “Keep On Loving You” (REO Speedwagon…hair bands at their peak) #6 “The Best Of Times” (Styx…see #5) #7 “The Tide Is High” (Blondie… can’t stand her) #8 “Giving It Up For Your Love” (Delbert McClinton…we had him at a Wake Forest springfest in ’80 and for various reasons don’t remember much of it…beginning with the fact we were having a pig pickin’, ya see, and, err, some domestic was consumed… probably Wiedemann’s at $1.39 a six-pack…) #9 “Same Old Lang Syne” (Dan Fogelberg) #10 “The Winner Takes It All” (Abba)
Baseball Quiz: 2,000 runs scored.
Rickey Henderson 2295
Ty Cobb 2246
Barry Bonds 2227
Hank Aaron 2174
Babe Ruth 2174…pretty amazing these two tied
Pete Rose 2165
Willie Mays 2062
