World Series Quiz: [Every good baseball fan should know the following, not that I knew half of ‘em. To help you, I’ll supply the year.] 1) Who holds the record for hits in a 4-game series? [1928] Who holds the record for hits in a 7-game series? [three players…1964, 68, 86] 2) Who holds the record for home runs in a 4-game series with four? [1928] Homers in a 5-game series with three? [two players…1969, 2008] Homers in a 6-game series with five? [two players…1977, 2009] Homers in a 7-game series with four? [five players…six times…1926, 52, 55, 58, 72, 2002] 3) Who holds the record for RBIs at 12, any length series? Answers below.
NFL Bits
–OK, so six weeks into the season, who has the upper hand in the Andrew Luck Sweepstakes; Luck being the consensus No. 1 player in the land, the quarterback from Stanford who had he opted to go out after his junior season last spring would have also gone No. 1 in the draft.
After watching Monday Night’s Jets-Dolphins debacle (never has a team looked so bad in victory as the Jets did), it would appear Miami is not going to win a game all year and thus will get Luck, seeing as how Miami, more so than any other team in the Free World, needs a quarterback.
But Indianapolis is 0-6 and what if they end up with the No. 1 pick? They already have Peyton Manning signed for a number of years and one has to assume Manning comes back from his third neck operation. Would they go for Luck as insurance and let him play understudy for, say, two seasons? To me this is the most intriguing situation.
Minnesota…1-5…need Luck.
Carolina…1-5…have Cam Newton, don’t need Luck.
Arizona…1-4…who is their quarterback? Oh yeah, Kevin Kolb. He blows. Need Luck.
St. Louis…0-5…has the talented Sam Bradford…no reason to draft Luck.
Jacksonville…1-5…need Luck.
Denver…1-4…also intriguing, if they think Tim Tebow is a winner at the NFL level. I’d go with Luck. Tebow is not The Answer.
But as I mentioned last time, nothing wrong with Boise State’s Kellen Moore as the second pick at QB in the draft, kids. Or Oklahoma’s Landry Jones.
–Each year someone gets off to a hot start and everyone then says that it’s the year Dan Marino’s single-season passing yardage mark of 5,084 yards (1984) goes down. The only other to throw for 5,000 is Drew Brees, who fell just 15 yards short in 2008.
But it’s kind of like baseball where early on in the season, one or two players rack up a ton of doubles or triples and suddenly everyone is frothing at the mouth that those single-season records are going down. But then the dog days of summer roll around and players hit a wall in those categories. Triples become doubles, and doubles become singles.
Same with the passing mark in football. It gets colder as the year progresses, the weather is worse, and players are banged up. But…for the record, Marino averaged 318 yards per game and three quarterbacks after Week Six are handily ahead of that pace.
Tom Brady…361 ypg
Drew Brees…359
Aaron Rodgers…339
Conversely, only two rushers are averaging over 100 ypg thus far…Darren McFadden (101) and Fred Jacobs (100).
We’ll get into Wes Welker next time.
“For weeks, we have been told that the NFL has turned into a passing league. That the pinball-machine passing and scoring numbers were the new norm. That all the rules changes over the past three decades had left us with a game that looks more like the Arena Football League. Then Week 6 came….
“In the first four weeks, the average team gained 246 passing yards and scored 22.8 points per game. In Week 5, the 26 teams playing averaged 239 passing yards and 25 points per game. But this past week, while the average team passed for 232 passing yards, scoring dropped to 20.1 points.”
–Talk about a big trade…Cincinnati quarterback Carson Palmer going to the Oakland Raiders after Palmer had threatened to retire. Cincinnati receives a first-round draft pick next year and a conditional pick in 2013 that could also be a first-rounder. Some say it’s a steal for the Bengals.
Rookie Andy Dalton became the starter at Cincy and led the Bengals to a 4-2 start. But as for Oakland, starting QB Jason Campbell went down with a broken collarbone on Sunday and he’s out for the season. The Raiders were suddenly in dire need of a top-flight quarterback if they were to be a legitimate playoff contender following their 4-2 start.
–The Jets’ signing of wide receiver Plaxico Burress has been an unqualified bust thus far. You would have thought that after two years in prison on the gun charge, he would have at least had fresh legs, but instead he has just 14 receptions for 218 yards and two touchdowns in six games.
Burress received $3 million for one year and the Jets obviously could have gotten the same production, if not better, from some total hack. But at least Plaxico hasn’t complained about the lack of inactivity (partly due to the fact he’s had some bad drops), and maybe he catches fire as Coach Rex Ryan is trying to make us believe.
–ESPN “Monday Night Football” analyst Jon Gruden signed a new five-year contract with the network wherein he promises to remain “out of coaching” during the period of the deal. Personally, the guy just doesn’t shut up.
–I just want to explain that I will continue to show the AP college football rankings, even though it is not part of the BCS computer system, simply because it helps lead to further controversy.
So, for example, while I won’t make too much of the first BCS poll, released last Sunday, to refresh your memory you have the following…
1. LSU
2. Alabama
3. Oklahoma
4. Wisconsin
…while the BCS has the same first three but Oklahoma State in the No. 4 slot. So the BCS is already set up for the LSU-Alabama, Oklahoma-Oklahoma State matchups, Nov. 5 and Dec. 3, respectively.
Wisconsin is No. 6 in the BCS poll and as I noted before is hurt by its non-conference schedule. The Badgers’ three non-conference FBS opponents – UNLV, Oregon State and Northern Illinois – have a combined 6-13 record. Plus Wisconsin played I-AA foe South Dakota. Wisconsin needs to destroy No. 15 Michigan State this weekend.
Meanwhile, undefeated Stanford is No. 8 in the BCS, but they at least have high-profile games against Washington, USC, Notre Dame and Oregon remaining, plus a potential Pac-12 title game, so they could move up quickly.
However, seven times in the 13-year history of the BCS, the teams that played in the national championship game were in the top four of the first standings and certainly we’re headed to LSU-Alabama winner vs. OU-OK State winner, assuming neither then stumbles in their conference title games.
Notice, Boise State, No. 5 AP and BCS, isn’t in the conversation because there is just no way they can move up. But, they could be playing an undefeated Clemson, No. 7 BCS, or the LSU-Alabama loser, OU-OK State loser, or….
Lastly, nothing wrong with undefeated Stanford playing undefeated Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. That’s our dream lineup. SEC vs. Big 12 BCS championship game and Stanford-Wisconsin to stir up further controversy, while Boise State plays undefeated Clemson in the Orange Bowl.
–The New York Times’ Pete Thamel on the latest in the college football realignment game.
“The Big East is muddling through the Big Wait. Everything hinges on how the Big 12 reacts after Missouri’s expected move to the Southeastern Conference. The Big 12 will not sit at nine teams, and will consider growing to 10 or 12. That would leave (Big East commissioner John) Marinatto hoping that the Big East does not get raided again. Louisville and West Virginia are prime Big 12 targets. Losing both could be fatal for the league, as it would then be down to four football programs. Neither would hesitate to go.”
Thamel conjectures the Big 12 wants to settle on 10 teams, and thus split the revenue fewer ways, as well as shelve the idea of a conference title game, which Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops and Texas coach Mack Brown are against because both “view the Big 12 title game as an impediment to them playing for a national title.”
“(So) the Big East has a chicken-egg conundrum: it needs to add new members to show stability, but some of the potential new members say they need it to show stability before they will join.”
Air Force Athletic Director Hans Mueh said Tuesday, “We’re just sitting back watching. We’re pretty happy in the Mountain West Conference. There’s no real impetus to do anything but sit back and watch.”
The Big East is totally screwed, the more you think about it. There is zero reason for any school, including Navy, to jump without knowing what is going on in the Big 12, first.
–I was watching last Saturday’s Michigan-Michigan State game and commented to Johnny Mac that I thought the Spartans were as dirty as any team I had seen. So on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal’s Darren Everson, in looking at intense rivalries, wrote: “Over the past five years there have been 20 roughness and behavior-related penalties, 16 by the Spartans.”
But Everson says the dirtiest football rivalry, when you look at unsportsmanlike conduct calls, late hits and roughness penalties, is Auburn-Georgia, with an average of 5.4 late-hit and behavior-related penalties over the last five meetings. Next up? A mini-shocker…Duke-North Carolina at 5.2, followed by UCLA-USC, 4.8. Now No. 4 on the list makes perfect sense…New Mexico-New Mexico State, 4.6. Then comes Kansas-Missouri, another no-brainer, at 4.2 and Michigan-Michigan State at 4.0.
–So who cares about a Texas-St. Louis World Series except in Texas and Missouri? I have to admit, I’ll have it on in the background, not much more.
“(If) the Texas Rangers beat the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, baseball will have had 10 different champions in the last 11 years. This has never happened in any other sport, although it last happened in baseball between 1982 and 1992, when 10 different teams won titles. The Cardinals won the World Series in 2006.”
–The farce surrounding the collapse of the Red Sox continues, as pitcher Jon Lester admitted Monday that he and fellow hurlers Josh Beckett and John Lackey drank beer in the dugout (not just the clubhouse) during games; saying they would leave the dugout around the sixth inning, walk back into the clubhouse and fill cups with Bud Light, and then maybe go back to the bench. A Red Sox employee told WHDI-TV in Boston:
“Beckett would come down the stairs from the dugout, walking through the corridor to the clubhouse and say ‘it’s about that time.’ Beckett was the instigator but Lester and Lackey were right behind him. It was blatant and hard not to notice what was going on with all three guys leaving at once.”
“You know what? We didn’t play good baseball. People are making us out to be a bunch of drunk, fried-chicken eating SOBs, playing video games. You can ask my wife, for the last 10 years I don’t think I’ve played a single video game, and Josh and Lack are the same way. But one person writes an article, and things have gotten blown way out of proportion, almost to another planet. We’re getting crushed.”
Well it was the day before that Lester admitted to having an occasional “rally beer.”
“Did we drink an occasional beer? Yes. Did it affect our performance in September? No. This stuff has been going on long before September, and not only in this clubhouse, but 29 other clubhouses too.”
No they don’t. And for this, Jon Lester becomes a candidate for “Bar Chat A-hole of the Year.”
Fallout from the Dan Wheldon Crash
A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti came down hard on NASCAR superstar Jimmie Johnson for Johnson’s comment that IndyCar stop racing on ovals because it was too easy for cars to get airborne.
“I don’t think Jimmie Johnson knows what he’s talking about,” four-time Indy 500 champion Foyt said. “He’s never driven one, and he’s pretty stupid to make a statement like that. You could say the same about stock cars. I’ve driven both, and I’ve been hurt real bad in both.”
Formula One driver David Coulthard, however, wrote that he passed on a chance to race in IndyCar because “the risk-reward ratio was simply too high. Formula 1 was at an acceptable level but IndyCar was, and is, probably 20 years behind in terms of safety. The main reason is simple: speed. There is no need to be racing at 225 mph, wheel-to-wheel, around mostly oval circuits.”
Andretti said Wheldon’s crash was “a fluke, freakish accident” that would be addressed next year with a new chassis designed to keep cars on the pavement by preventing wheel-to-wheel contact.”
Ironically, it was Wheldon who was most involved among the drivers in developing a safer car.
Foyt added: “Indy cars are probably 1,000% safer than when I drove them. You always hope you can make them 100% safe where no one gets hurt or killed, but I don’t care what (car) you’re in, you’re going to have these fatalities, and you hate it because it hurts everybody. (Sunday) was a tragedy. I knew Wheldon; he was a super kid. But this ain’t going to be last time things like this happen.”
Andretti: “I consider driving on a racetrack a lot safer than going to the racetrack or coming home from it.”
Damn right. With all the texting now going on behind the wheel, a trip around the block is dangerous.
Staff Sgt. Jason Fetty
“Fetty was awarded a Silver Star for foiling a suicide bomber’s plot to blow up a medical center in Khost province, Afghanistan, on Feb. 20, 2007. The reservist was serving with the 364th Civil Affairs Group as a member of the Joint Provisional Reconstruction Team-Khost.
“While pulling security for an opening of a new emergency room in eastern Afghanistan, where Khost’s governor and other dignitaries had gathered, Fetty saw a suspicious looking man in a white lab coat.
“ ‘He was crazy in the eyes. He looked like he was on drugs, and he was acting very erratic. He definitely didn’t look right,’ Fetty said in a Defense Department release late in 2007. Fetty suspected the man was strapped with a bomb, according to his awards citation.
“Concerned for the safety of those around him, Fetty led the man to an area away from the hospital, along the way questioning the likelihood he’d survive the encounter.
“ ‘You just stop thinking at that point about yourself,’ he said in the release. ‘It was either going to be me or 20 other people back there.’
“At a clearing away from the crowd, Fetty struck the man with his rifle, and the two men began to tussle. Fetty broke free and knocked the man to the ground with a gunshot to the leg. When the man stood, other soldiers turned their fire on him, and Fetty fled, taking three steps and diving before the man’s bomb exploded. The blast sprayed shrapnel into Fetty’s face, leg and ankle.
“Fetty helped prevent ‘a strategic catastrophe’ and saved ‘countless’ lives, said Navy Cmdr. John F.G. Wade, commander of the reconstruction team, in the release.
“Fetty was the first reservist to receive a Silver Star for actions in the Afghanistan war, according to the Pentagon.”
–Yes, in a no-brainer, the PGA Tour matched up Webb Simpson and Luke Donald in the first two rounds of the last 2011 event this week at Lake Buena Vista, Florida. So those two battle it out for the money title while about ten golfers sweat it out over the 125 cut line for retaining their Tour card for 2012.
“As a rule, Stern loves to control the message, and he’ll muzzle the messenger if he doesn’t care for him. In 1996, TNT wanted to bring me on for regular spots on its NBA studio show; the NBA had announcer approval and Stern’s office vetoed my hire. Apparently, the league didn’t believe I thought the NBA was fan-tastic enough. It’s interesting: Latrell Sprewell could choke his coach, the Pacers and Pistons could spark a massive brawl between players and fans, Gilbert Arenas and Jarvis Crittenton could draw guns in the Wizards’ locker room and referee Tim Donaghy could bet on games he officiated, but if I made jokes on-air about Shaquille O’Neal’s shoe size, THE WHOLE DARN ENTERPRISE COULD BE BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES….
“Just the other day, Knicks forward Amare Stoudemire said, ‘We can’t just sit around and not do anything.’
“Actually, best I can tell, NBA types spend most of their down time getting tatted up, playing ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ and courting Kardashians.”
—Frank and Jamie McCourt reached a settlement on what is believed to be the costliest divorce in California history. Jamie gets about $130 million and relinquishes any claim to a share of the Dodgers as Frank now struggles to retain ownership of the team by selling the Dodgers’ television rights in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. As the L.A. Times’ Bill Shaikin notes, “The agreement also would appear to set up a winner-take-all court showdown for the Dodgers between McCourt and Commissioner bud Selig.”
Through July, the McCourts had incurred $20.6 million in legal bills.
–If you saw “60 Minutes” on Sunday, you now know that two authors, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, have published a new biography of Van Gogh that concludes the artist did not kill himself but was accidentally shot by two boys he knew who had “a malfunctioning gun.” Smith and Naifeh spent 10 years on the book and employed more than 20 translators in going through old material.
Van Gogh, according to their theory, was accidentally shot and he decided to protect them by accepting the blame, Van Gogh living for a time after the gunshot wound to the abdomen, which entered from an oblique angle – not straight on as might be expected from a suicide attempt.
—Very sad story out of Zanesville, Ohio, as that state’s incredibly stupid laws allowing idiots to keep exotic animals has once again come back to bite them, with the Animal Kingdom the innocent victims. As I go to post, according to the AP, “nearly all of the 50 or so escaped animals (from a wild-animal park) had been either gunned down or captured alive, authorities said. As of mid-afternoon, the only animals still on the loose were a wolf and a monkey.”
The owner of the privately run Muskingum County Animal Farm, Terry Thompson, left the cages open and the fences unsecured before committing suicide, Sheriff Matt Lutz said. Authorities had no idea why Thompson did what he did or why “he went out with what appeared to be one last act of vengeance.”
Thompson had had repeated run-ins with the law and his neighbors. He had gotten out of federal prison just last month after serving a year for possessing unregistered guns.
“John Ellenberger, a neighbor of Thompson’s, speculated he freed the animals to get back at neighbors and police. Nobody much cared for him.”
The police did what they had to do in dealing with dozens of lions, bears, tigers and wolves, especially when you consider the animals were loose all night before they were systematically hunted down.
What is even sadder, however, is that some were found next to their open enclosures. It was as if the prison door was open but they knew it was only going to be worse if they left. Suffice it to say, Ohio needs to change their laws.
–I first saw this in the Irish Independent on Monday.
“Fears missing German yachtsman has been ‘eaten by cannibals”
“A German yachtsman is feared to have been eaten by cannibals after he stopped off on an idyllic island during a sailing tour of the Pacific Ocean.
“Stefan Ramin, 40, from Hamburg, disappeared last month after reaching the remote tropical island of Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia.
“After a week of searches, charred human remains and clothes have been found near a campfire in a remote valley of the island, raising fears that he may have been attacked and eaten by cannibals. [Ed. There being no grizzly bears in the South Pacific.]….
“A squad of 22 police officers on the island are now searching for Henri Haiti [no relation to Henri Matisse], a local guide who took Mr. Ramin on a goat hunting trip in the mountains of Nuku Hiva and is believed to be the last person to see him alive.
“After setting off on the hunt, Mr. Haiti returned to tell Ms. Ramin’s girlfriend Heike Dorsch, 37, that there had been an accident and that Mr. Ramin had been injured. But when she tried to raise the alarm, Mr. Haiti allegedly attacked her and tied her to a tree, before fleeing the scene.
“Miss Dorsch managed to escape [Ed. Thanks to King Kong, who took a shining to her] after several hours and alert authorities.”
Investigators believe a “human body was hacked to pieces and burned,” according to the Daily Mail.
Well, the residents of French Polynesia say they are shocked, though “Nuku Hiva has a history of cannibalism, but the practice was believed to have ceased. The island is featured in the stories of Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick.” [For his part, Moby knew enough not to beach himself on the island because of the longstanding rumors, thereby proving once again how smart whales are. Certainly brighter than Stefan Ramin. Sperm Whales are No. 13 on the All-Species List. Man moves down to No. 149 from 148.]
“Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk unveiled eight cloned coyotes yesterday in a project sponsored by a provincial government….
“Hwang was a national hero until some of his research into creating human stem cells from a cloned embryo was found to be faked, although his work in creating Snuppy, the world’s first cloned dog, in 2005 has been verified by experts.”
So I bring this up because with the supposedly successful cloning of the coyotes, Hwang has a new mission…cloning a wooly mammoth! Nooo!!!
Hwang claims to have tissue samples of a mammoth, purchased from the Russian “mafia,” as he stated in 2006 testimony related to an embezzlement case.
–You may have seen some of the pictures out of Thailand, with the catastrophic flooding there that threatens the capital of Bangkok.
But now we learn “Crocodiles are at large…after being liberated from their enclosures by (the) floods,” as reported by Richard Lloyd Parry of the London Times.
Good lord…100 escaped from a single farm. And while there are no confirmed deaths from crocs yet, “officials are warning of an increased threat from snakes, scorpions and poisonous centipedes, which have been driven into human habitation by the floods.”
I think I’m going to have nightmares this evening. One government minister is also concerned about some tigers being loose.
Thailand, by the way “has more captive crocodiles than any other country in the world, with 200,000 in 30 crocodile farms and 900 small-scale breeding centers.”
The tigers in question are in some cases part of the croc farms.
–Just another nature note, the great filmmaker, Sir David Attenborough, now 85, has put together a new documentary on both Poles, a BBC series titled “Frozen Planet.” Definitely looks like it’s worth checking out, if you can track it down on your cable system that has BBC programming. [I always forget I have this option.]
–Congratulations to 100-year-old Fauja Singh (no relation to Vijay), who completed a full marathon in Toronto on Sunday, thus earning a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records for his accomplishment. I saw this guy on television a few days before breaking world records for runners older than 100 in eight different distances ranging from 100 meters to 5,000 meters. Singh has set his sights on being part of the 2012 London Olympics’ torch relay. Amazing. He finished in 8 hours and as best as I could see, ‘ran’ the entire way. Back in 2003, he set the 90-plus mark by finishing the Toronto marathon in 5 hours, 40 minutes.
–Shu brought something to my attention when I mentioned my hankering to go to Vegas and just wager on some sporting events. Emeril has “Lagasse’s Stadium,” a combo sports book and restaurant that looks like the primo way to catch the action. Great option.
–“Simpsons” creator Matt Groening was interviewed in the Financial Times the other day and he talked of how in his youth, his favorite cartoon was “Peanuts,” – “a depiction of childhood riven with loneliness and insecurity that Groening has called ‘one of the great works of the 20th century.’”
You know, while my friend and fellow cartoon expert Jeff B. and I exchange notes on an almost daily basis on Calvin & Hobbes re-runs as being the funniest strip of all time, when Charles Schulz was on his game there was still no one better. The strip has aged remarkably well. [“Bloom County” was another in my personal top three with the other two. “Doonesbury” is in a class by itself. I always get a kick out of those who dismiss the strip as being too left wing without even reading it. Garry Trudeau is brilliant.]
Meanwhile, wisdom from Homer Simpson: “Trying is the first step towards failure” and “When will I learn? The answer to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle. They’re on TV.”
Matt Groening’s personal fortune, by the way, is estimated at $600 million. That’s awesome. You rock, Matt. Hope you make another $600 million, typed your editor, getting increasingly irritated at the composition of the Occupy Wall Street crowds.
Top 3 songs for the week of 10/17/70: #1 “I’ll Be There” (The Jackson 5…great tune, Michael wasn’t doing Propofol yet…and Conrad Murray no relation to Hall of Famer Eddie Murray, as much as some want to draw the connection) #2 “Cracklin’ Rosie” (Neil Diamond…always thought it was ‘Cracklin’ Rose’ which confused the hell out of me, but then I’m deaf in one ear and, well, it’s why I’m now doing Bar Chat instead of replacing Steve Jobs) #3 “Green-Eyed Lady” (Sugarloaf…love it)…and…#4 “All Right Now” (Free…eh) #5 “We’ve Only Just Begun” (Carpenters…Karen and Richard just getting started…for you young folk out there, just understand the older you get the more you’ll appreciate the great music these two put out…and also that you need to eat…kind of important) #6 “Candida” (Dawn…Trick or Treat) #7 “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (Diana Ross…not a fan of hers, but brilliant tune…was earlier #1 for three weeks) #8 “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” (Creedence Clearwater Revival…they did better) #9 “Julie, Do Ya Love Me” (Bobby Sherman…and this is another, kids, that you know it’s time to put your parents in a home when they and their friends are singing this at the top of their lungs during some otherwise stupid dinner party) #10 “Fire And Rain” (James Taylor…not a bad week)
World Series Quiz Answers: 1) Record for hits in a 4-game series is 10 held by Babe Ruth, NYY, 1928. For a 7-game series the record is 13 hits, held by Bobby Richardson, NYY, 1964; Lou Brock, STL, 1968; Marty Barrett, BOS, 1986. 2) Record for home runs in a 4-game series is four held by Lou Gehrig, NYY, 1928. 5-game series the record is three, held by Donn Clendenon, NYM, 1969; and Ryan Howard, PHL, 2008. 6-game series the record is five held by Reggie Jackson, NYY, 1977; and Chase Utley, PHL, 2009. 7-game series the record is four held by Babe Ruth, NYY, 1926; Duke Snider, BRO, 1952, 55; Hank Bauer, NYY, 1958; Gene Tenace, OAK, 1972; Barry Bonds, SF, 2002. 3) Bobby Richardson, NYY, holds the record for RBIs at 12 in 1960 (7 games).
So let’s talk about Bobby Richardson (1955-66), shall we? 6-time All-Star second baseman, 5 Gold Gloves. A .266 career batting average, no power, but this was in an era when his stats were normal for second basemen. Then again, he had just a .299 career on-base average! Good lord, that blows! Yet…this guy holds two of the great records for World Series play! Hits and RBIs. In 1962, Richardson had his best season, 209 hits, .302 average, 59 RBI. But in 1960, he had 12 RBI in 30 at-bats in the Series! Richardson, in seven World Series, hit .305 and struck out only 7 times in 131 ABs.
Lastly, boy, you could win major coin on Duke Snider being the only player in history to hit four homers in a 7-game series, twice. At least I had no clue on that one.
Ruth, 129 at-bats, 15 HR 33 RBI, .326
Gehrig, 119 at-bats, 10 HR 35 RBI, .361
None of this Barry Bonds or A-Rod crappola!
Bonds, 151 at-bats, 9 HR 24 RBI, .245
A-Rod, 249 at-bats, 13 HR 41 RBI, .277
Survey says…Ruth and Gehrig remain among the 3 best hitters in the history of the game! Bonds and A-Rod, all ‘roided up, sucked in the clutch!
Pssst…go to baseballreference.com. Notice who sponsors Ruth’s and Gehrig’s pages. Your editor only goes for quality.
