Baseball Quiz: Name the 24 to have hit 50 home runs in a single
season. Answer below.
Rutgers Lost Me
Folks, time to make some enemies. In my 8+ years at
StocksandNews.com, I have probably referenced the same story
on both “Week in Review” and “Bar Chat” no more than five
times. Those of you who read them no doubt recognize this. But
I am going to be making an exception this week after what
happened at the Rutgers-Navy football game last Friday night.
To set the stage, I, like virtually every other resident of New
Jersey, regardless of where we went to school ourselves, have
loved seeing Rutgers get its act together in football. We don’t
have big time college sports in my state, unless it’s Rutgers, and
their resurgence has been fun. Rutgers as an institution of higher
learning also has a good reputation, and as I grow older, and
being an alumnus of Wake Forest where we actually try to
graduate our football and basketball players, this carries more
weight with me.
But I caught just a few minutes of Friday’s contest on ESPN with
Navy and I didn’t know until Monday, and a piece by Mark
DiIonno in the Star-Ledger, what a travesty the game became.
The Scarlet Knights defeated the Midshipmen 41-24, but the
behavior of some of the fans was both an abomination and
despicable.
Mark DiIonno:
“The play came late in the game, when Rutgers expanded its lead
over Navy to a comfortable level after a tight three quarters.
“Navy’s Reggie Campbell took the kickoff and ran full speed
ahead up the middle with all the force his 168-pound body could
generate. Campbell, almost always the smallest and fastest man
on the field, hit a wall of XXXL-sized scarlet jerseys and was
slammed to the ground at the bottom of the pile He got up
slowly, limping off. This gutsy kid, a slotback who already spent
three quarters being chased and tackled by gangs of defensive
linemen and linebackers, all weighing at least 100 pounds more
than him, was then given a dose of Rutgers’ student section class.
“ ‘You got f—ed up. You got f—ed up. You got f—ed up,’ they
chanted.
“Reggie Campbell is a senior. After graduation in June he has a
five-year commitment to the American military, which, like it or
not, is at war.
“ ‘This is how you treat people who may die for this country?’
said Bill Squires, an Annapolis graduate who was on the sideline
for the Friday night game in Piscataway and was shocked by the
obscene chants directed at the Navy players and fans throughout
the game. ‘It was the most classless thing I’ve seen.’
“Navy was booed and peppered with ‘You suck!’ chants when
they stepped on the field for both halves. Toward the end of the
second half, Rutgers students in the new bleacher section began
to serenade the adjacent section of Navy fans and uniformed
Midshipmen.
“ ‘F— you, Navy. F—you, Navy. F— you, Navy.’
“ ‘There were wives and small children up there,’ said Squires,
an academic recruiter for the academy who has been to dozens of
away games and never seen such contempt directed at his team.
‘Our Midshipmen reacted the way they were taught. They didn’t
respond, but the band started playing ‘Anchors Aweigh’ to
drown them out. Me, I felt like going up there and smacking
somebody. I was mad, and it bothered me all weekend.’”
As DiIonno points out (we went to the same elementary school,
incidentally), this kind of behavior is all too frequent, across the
country, and we agree that Rutgers’ fans aren’t even the worst in
my state. That honor goes to my fellow Jets fans, who proved
what jerks they can be in their treatment of fallen QB Chad
Pennington. But there is something deeply disturbing at work
here.
DiIonno:
“Now that Rutgers is big-time, the old-time academic- and adult-
minded fans are being elbowed aside by gangs of frat boys
thrusting their fists and faces into the rolling ESPN cameras.
What was it your old football coach used to say? Act like you’ve
been there before. Not in the RU student section.
“ ‘At one point, I thought, we defend this country for people like
this?’ said Squires. ‘I wasn’t embarrassed as a New Jerseyan. I
was embarrassed as a human being.’….
“Some will excuse the behavior as kids just being kids….
Spewing obscenities at the visiting team is just part of the fun.
“But you’d hope our Jersey kids would be smart enough to make
an exception for the service academies, especially the weekend
before the anniversary of 9/11, their generation’s own Day of
Infamy. You’d hope they’d be sensitive enough to realize that
some of those Midshipmen may soon be among the young
American men and women fighting and bleeding and dying in
Iraq and Afghanistan. Young Americans, the same age as those
safe in the stands watching a football game with their faces and
bodies painted red.
“At the very least, you’d think the Rutgers students would have
some appreciation for the effort the undersized Navy players put
out. They aren’t like the players from Louisville or West
Virginia or some of the other ranked powerhouses Rutgers now
finds itself among. They are what Rutgers was not so many
years ago. Students first, athletes second. Except better.”
Needless to say, Rutgers President Richard McCormick issued a
formal apology on Monday to the U.S. Naval Academy. Athletic
Director Robert Mulcahy wrote an open letter to the students,
calling the behavior “undignified, disrespectful and
unacceptable.”
In his letter to the superintendent, McCormick said he learned of
the offensive chants only after the game.
“No student athlete should ever be subject to profane language
directed at them from the crowd, and certainly not the young
men of the Naval Academy who have made a commitment to
serve our nation in a time of war.”
Head coach Greg Schiano said he didn’t hear the chants – “I’ve
got two headsets on and I’m trying to coach a game” – but
received enough reports from “reputable people” to believe the
situation occurred.
Rutgers and Navy play each year until at least 2014.
I know a lot of you went to Rutgers, or have sons and daughters
going there today. I hope you’re upset, as many of the parents
attending the game were, from all the accounts I’ve read.
This week Wake Forest hosts Army (and we play in Annapolis
later on). If I ever hear of similar behavior by Wake fans, I
swear to you, I will never, ever contribute another dollar to my
alma mater. I also spend major bucks each year to run an ad in
Wake’s athletic newspaper that goes to bigger donors. I would
immediately pull that as well, even though I’d lose readers as a
result.
I’m tired of this crap. I’m tired of today’s society and our
culture, influenced by the worst of MTV, hip-hop, and 24-hour
ESPN coverage, glorifying incredibly mediocre athletes with pea
brains who can throw down a thunderous jam or dance in the end
zone like a total idiot, but couldn’t identify Iraq on a map.
Again, fans will be fans…we all recognize this…but we’re
talking Navy, for crying out loud!
When Rutgers makes the top ten in the AP poll, I’ll duly note it.
Otherwise, don’t look for any mention in this space of the school
and as for the readers I may have just lost…so be it.
Belichick and the Pats
Talk about your jerks. Look at Bill Belichick. Steve Serby of
the New York Post on the allegations that New England cheated
in its contest last Sunday against the Jets by videotaping Jets
defensive signals.
“Anyone who has Tom Brady throwing the football and (Randy)
Moss catching it and is so devious and paranoid he has to resort
to I Spy should go by the name Bill Belitrick.
“Or Bill Belicheat.
“Combine Belichick’s well-documented dalliance with a former
Giants secretary with the bombshell ESPN report that NFL
Commissioner has found him guilty of violating league rules…
and here’s what you have:
“Sex, lies and videotape….
“Goodell needs to send NFL coaches the same kind of stern
message he sent NFL players when he suspended Pacman Jones
for a year for his Above the Law behavior.
“Belichick is supposed to be too much of a genius for this type of
sinister behavior. He is supposed to have too good a team to go
out of his way to gain a competitive advantage.
“Obviously, he subscribes to the credo ‘Show me a good loser
and I’ll show you a loser.’
Gary Myers / New York Daily News
“If Bill Belichick is indeed guilty in SpyGate, which means he’s
not quite as smart as he thinks, or even as smart as James Bond,
then Roger Goodell must not play favorites with a three-time,
Super Bowl-winning coach. Forget about taking away a couple
of draft picks [Ed. the current rumor]. Goodell should suspend
him for one game – the rematch against the Jets in December –
for cheating.
“Imagine what a public-relations disaster the Patriots and the
NFL face if the coach who is considered the best in the league
had to resort to illegal means to beat the Jets and his estranged
protégé, Eric Mangini….
“The Patriots are accused of having an employee on the sideline
last Sunday videotaping the Jets coaches as they sent in the
defensive signals, a violation of NFL rules. League security
confiscated the camera and the tape during the game.”
Sources say this kind of behavior has been going on with the Pats
for years, and, according to another of Myers’ sources:
“There have been some suggestions the Patriots do stuff with
radio frequency, too, when the other team’s coach-to-quarterback
system goes down at the wrong moment.”
[Belichick just apologized to his team, as I go to post, but didn’t
elaborate.]
Stuff
–Back to the Jets fans’ treatment of quarterback Chad
Pennington; as my brother noted, “He may not have a big time
arm, but he’s a wonderful, gutsy player. If those drunken bozos
in the stands want to cheer his getting injured, they deserve the
mediocre season that’s clearly headed our way.”
–In yet another example of my adage “wait 24 hours,” Buffalo
Bills tight end Kevin Everett showed significant improvement on
Tuesday following the tackle Sunday that led to a severe spinal
cord injury. Initially, doctors said his life was in danger, but now
at least partial recovery appears possible.
–Knicks coach Isiah Thomas was portrayed as a total dirtball,
and racist, in opening statements by former Knicks executive
Anucha Browne Sanders who has taken Thomas to court in a
sexual harassment suit. At one point Sanders allegedly asked
Thomas to sign season ticket renewal-request letters and Thomas
said, “Bitch, I don’t give a f— about these white people.”
Browne Sanders, also an African-American, said she urged
Thomas to reconsider, seeing as how 80% or more of the Knicks’
fan base is white. Thomas also accosted her over the scheduling
of community events for his players. “We’re not going to do any
more of these f—— community events,” Browne Sanders says
Thomas screamed.
But here’s the payoff. Stephon Marbury has been called by both
sides to take the stand. Can you imagine what he’ll testify to?
He could just about say anything, Stephon having the
intelligence of a ferret. [Actually, I didn’t mean to disparage
ferrets.]
–As reported by Bob Nightengale of USA Today, Gary Wadler
of the World Anti-Doping Agency “believes athletes are using
HGH, for which there is no reliable test, to help conceal the use
of steroids, beating MLB’s three-year-old steroid-testing policy.”
“Taking HGH enables you to take lower doses of anabolic
steroids,’ Wadler said. ‘By taking a lower level of steroids, you
may not be detected when undergoing drug tests.”
Another expert, Karl Ullis, said simply taking HGH by itself
makes little sense for athletes unless they’re taking other
steroids.
BALCO founder Victor Conte says “Players are using steroids
during the offseason, and then using HGH during the season to
maintain.”
–I can’t help but note some quotes I saw from the late Skip
Prosser, former coach of the Wake Forest basketball team, as
published in my alumni magazine.
Upon being named coach at Wake, “I may not know a lot about
the ACC right now, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last
night.”
On the team’s defense: “Well we weren’t exactly the Russians at
Stalingrad.”
–And I was reading this Jesuit magazine I get (due to my
involvement with them out in Micronesia), and I bet you didn’t
know the father of hurricane forecasting was none other than Fr.
Benito Vines, a Jesuit, who lived from 1837-1893. Former
National Hurricane Director Dr. Bob Sheets and meteorologist
Jack Williams published a book “Hurricane Watch: Forecasting
the Deadliest Storms on Earth,” wherein they note Fr. Vines.
Back in 1870, he was based in Havana, Cuba, and the Jesuits’
long tradition of scientific education and research lent itself to
what would become Vines’ passion…forecasting big storms.
Until the 18th century, there was no method whatsoever in
predicting weather and a hundred years later Vines started with
twelve years of detailed weather observations that the Royal
College of Belen in Havana had kept.
To this database, he began compiling his own observations from
4 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week, using the equipment
available at the time, including sextants, barometers, and
anemometers. When a storm approached, Vines feverishly
picked up his pace.
“American Jesuit Fr. Walter Drum wrote of his brother Jesuit
decades later: ‘He studied the structure of the cyclone, the
phenomena that preceded it, and the havoc left in its wake – in
fact, he noted with ardor and painstaking care all meteorological
signs and data which preceded, accompanied, and followed up
the storm…’”
So on September 11, 1875, Vines predicted an intense hurricane
would hit Cuba’s southern coast two days later. “When it did so,
his reputation for accurate forecasts achieved immediate and
wide circulation. This had never happened before – anywhere!
Later that year he made another successful forecast. The
following season a special edition of La Voz de Cuba announced
on Oct. 19, ‘We have just received from Rev. Father Vines…the
following important communication that we hasten to make
known to the public before the time of our evening edition…We
are very near to the vortex of a hurricane.’
“Vines expected the wind to blow from the northeast, followed
by ‘a calm that should not be trusted, and thereafter the wind
would shift with a sudden and terrific force to the southwest’ –
exactly what will happen as the eye of a hurricane passes directly
over a location, moving east to west. Again, Vines’ forecast was
correct.”
Then in September 1877, Fr. Vines forecast that a hurricane still
far over the Atlantic would strike Barbados soon. It did. Then
he predicted on September 22 that the hurricane would miss
Puerto Rico but would strike Santiago, Cuba, on the 24th. “Be on
your guard,” he advised, and he nailed it. True, lots of luck was
involved, but there was obviously some skill as well.
Vines’ forecasts depended not just on wave action, but cloud
observations at different levels of the atmosphere. “He correctly
hypothesized that clouds – carried by the winds, naturally –
converge toward the center of a hurricane at low altitude. At
middle altitudes, the winds and clouds tend to circle around the
storm. At high altitudes, the winds carry clouds away from the
storm.” It’s not as easy as it sounds, though, as Dr. Sheets makes
clear. Vines just had the touch…like that of “an Old Master.”
No doubt, Fr. Vines missed as many storms as he correctly
forecast, but as Dr. Sheets and Jack Williams conclude, “Vines
firmly planted the idea that an understanding of hurricanes could
be used to save lives.”
–Catching up on reading, Victorino Matus had a recent piece in
The Weekly Standard on America’s celebrity-chef culture and I
pass on this little tidbit.
“The new convergence of our food culture and our
entertainment/media/leisure cultures can be traced to November
23, 1993 – the day the Food Network was launched. The
brainchild of Reese Schonfeld, co-creator of CNN, the network
would at first be seen by a mere 6.5 million subscribers. Most of
the early shows were cooking demonstrations (‘dump and stir,’
in the trade lingo) and included hosts Robin Leach, David
Rosengarten, and the future ex-Mrs. Rudy Giuliani, Donna
Hanover. Then came an ambitious 34-year-old chef, Emeril
Lagasse.
“Originally from Fall River, Massachusetts, Lagasse became the
executive chef of Commander’s Palace in New Orleans at age
23. With his explosive temper, he legendarily fired 7 of 13 line
cooks in one night. Then it dawned on Lagasse to ‘leave my ego
at home’ and ‘bring my professionalism and talent to work,’
which led to his getting discovered while doing a cooking
demonstration in Nashville.
“One of Lagasse’s early shows on the Food Network, ‘How to
Boil Water,’ was a bit of a snoozer – the camera crew would
doze off while filming it, prompting Lagasse to occasionally yell,
‘Bam!’ But then came ‘Essense of Emeril’ and, more important,
‘Emeril Live’ in 1997, fulfilling the chef’s dream of combining a
cooking show with elements of Jay Leno….no one had seen
anything like it.”
This past year, the Food Network took in $488 million in ad sales
and licensing fees.
[Victorino Matus is working on a book on celebrity chefs.]
–CORRECTION: Well, after over 1,000 Bar Chats there’s a
good reason why I’ve never won a Pulitzer Prize for this work.
The other day I goofed, big time, in identifying Roseanne
Roseannadanna, rather than Emily Litella, as being responsible
for the tagline “Never mind.” All these years I dreamed of
appearing on “Meet the Press.”
Tim Russert: Editor, in your Pulitzer-Prize winning book
“Elephants and Black Bears: The New Terrorists,” you state, and
here’s the graphic, “civilization as we know it is at risk through
this new threat.” Do you really believe this?
Me: Tim, we both have the same sources in the intelligence
community; they’ve told me they’re concerned. It’s just a matter
of time, and our homeland security effort has been geared
towards combating a totally different kind of terrorism. We
simply aren’t prepared.
Russert: Mr. Editor, we’ll be watching…thank you for your time.
Alas, now the NBC bookers won’t consider me after mixing up
Roseannadanna and Litella. My apologies.
–By the way, one of those who brought this to my attention,
Steve G., runs marathons and he told me he just did a half up in
Pocatello, Idaho. What’s interesting was as part of the pre-race
package, everyone gets a 5-lb. bag of spuds. No word on
whether Larry Craig was hovering around the Port-O-Johns.
–Unbelievably, the Chicago White Sox extended manager Ozzie
Guillen’s contract through 2012. Yeah, they won a World Series
in 2005 with the guy, but they suck today and Guillen is totally
wacko! This makes absolutely zero sense.
–British researchers have discovered that wild chimps in West
Africa steal fruits from local farms to impress the lady chimps, as
reported by Reuters. Dr. Kimberley Hockings said “The adult
male who shared most with this female engaged in more
consortships with her and received more groomings from her
than the other adult males, even the alpha male.”
And here I thought women were turned on by Chex Mix.
–This just in…from the BBC…
“It’s official – the godwit makes the longest non-stop migratory
flight in the world.
“A bird has been tracked from its Southern Hemisphere
summertime home in New Zealand to its breeding ground in
Alaska – and back again.”
I first reported on the godwit (not to be confused with the
American nitwit) in this space back on 4/5/07 and this particular
bar-tailed godwit, E7, landed in New Zealand this past weekend
after an 11,500km journey from Alaska that took one week.
“Unlike seabirds, which feed and rest on long journeys
(personally, I go bar-hopping), godwits just keep going (no
feeding or drinking).”
Incredibly for the researchers, the satellite tag lasted far longer
than was expected. Just great stuff, and thus scientists’ long-held
belief that godwits were the champions of avian migration has
been confirmed through technology.
And get this, “any chicks E7 would have produced during her
two months in Alaska will be getting ready to leave the Yukon
Delta in a few weeks as the first young godwits usually arrive in
New Zealand early next month.”
You know, there’s an exciting world out there and thank god we
have people like those at the Pacific Shorebird Migration
Program for this kind of work.
–Kenya wants the remains of the two infamous lions that,
according to legend, killed 140 railway workers in the 19th
century, but the man-eaters of Tsavo are housed at Chicago’s
Field Museum.
Back in 1898, after the lions struck over a nine-month period
along a rail line under construction between Mombasa and Lake
Victoria, a British engineer, Lieutenant Colonel John Patterson,
shot the lions and eventually sold the skulls and hides to the
museum.
Now in a piece for Bar Chat back on 10/12/06, I noted:
“The most famous cases involving man-eaters were the lions of
Tsavo and Tanganyika; 140 dead humans in the former, 1,500 in
the latter, the ‘All-Africa’ record.
“There are some, though, who say the two man-eaters of Tsavo
only killed 28 between the two of them. But the Tanganyika
mark goes back to the 1930s and 1940s, where “a large pride of
lions is said to have specialized in humans and handed down that
specialty from one generation to the next.”
“It’s actually possible to calculate the number of humans killed
by talking to villagers and reading police reports on those who
were missing husbands, wives and children. But in Kruger you
have the Mozambican refugee issue. ‘If they are missed, the
families do not inform the South African police that their
husband, wife, daughter, or son illegally entered South Africa
and now is missing.’
“Today, it’s estimated 16,000 Mozambicans move through
Kruger each year. But just ten years ago the figure was far higher
before the South African government cracked down on the
traffic. During the 1980s, a civil war in Mozambique pushed
more than 350,000 refugees through the park. A U.S. group says
1.7 million over the 1980s and 1990s, or over 80,000 a year.
“In other words, lots of opportunities for the lions, where the law
of ‘easy prey’ often applied. ‘Whether the lions prefer antelope,
zebras, buffalo, or giraffes, a sick refugee stumbled upon will do
nicely,’ writes (Robert R.) Frump (in his book ‘The Man-Eaters
of Eden’). ‘We know too that at least some lions are not
opportunistic killers but according to credible rangers display a
preference for and specialty for humans, waiting along the power
lines….We know they see six times better than humans at night.’
“So if the lions nailed just one percent of all refugees, then by
Robert Frump’s calculation, from 1960-2005, total fatalities
may have been over 13,000. In other words, we have a new
‘All-Africa’ record, sports fans!!!”
–This is inside baseball stuff, literally, but the other day the Mets
were playing the Braves and Mets hurler Oliver Perez picked off
Braves pitcher Tim Hudson from second. So Phil W. passed
along a story of the game from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
and Hudson makes the comment:
“Every time a pitcher gets on base now, I’m gonna pick,” said
Hudson, upset that Perez would focus on picking off a fellow
pitcher. “Obviously I’m not a very good baserunner. Looking
back, I was probably a little too far off the bag. But I’m hardly
ever on second base. I don’t know what’s close and what’s far. I
guess I know what’s too far now.”
What a jerk. Or as Phil W. noted, “Is this the most ridiculous
quote or what? It reads like there is an understanding that a
pitcher will not attempt to pick off another. You’re an athlete,
learn how to play the game. Baserunning is part of it.”
–150 years ago this month, Massachusetts-born church organist
James Pierpont copyrighted “One Horse Open Sleigh.” In 1859
it was retitled “Jingle Bells,” with no mention of Christmas in the
lyrics. Today over 1,500 versions exist. [Smithsonian]
–We’re #1! We’re #1!
Soccer America Men’s Poll
1. Wake Forest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. UConn
3. Indiana
4. SMU
5. Duke
–For those following the FedEx Cup and the final stage of the
playoffs this weekend, here’s all you need to know.
If Phil Mickelson wins, Tiger still gets the Cup and the $10
million annuity if he finishes solo second (in a 30-man field).
Third or worse for Tiger and the Cup is Phil’s.
If Steve Stricker finishes solo second, he wins the Cup as long as
Woods finishes 4th or worse, and as long as Mickelson finished
third or worse.
There are two other very long shot prospects involving Rory
Sabbatini and K.J. Choi, but these involve Tiger totaling
imploding and this just ain’t gonna happen.
–Oh baby….I’m glancing through The Old Farmer’s Almanac,
2008 edition, and I just had to pass on this recipe…which
captured 2nd prize in the peanut butter contest.
Peanut Butter Sheet Cake
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups sugar
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup vegetable oil
¾ cup margarine
½ cup crunchy peanut butter
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup buttermilk
Throw it all together, spread in a greased pan, and heat at 350 for
15 to 18 minutes.
OK, it’s a little more complicated than that…but I may just try it
my way and see what happens. So, if I don’t post Monday’s
column, you’ll know something went horribly wrong and that
Bar Chat #1,001 may have been the last.
–Goodness gracious…three New Jersey residents were struck by
lightning on lakes last weekend. One person died, the other two
are in critical condition at last word. The thing is, it wasn’t even
a stormy weekend.
–Not for nothing, but Portland center Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick
in the NBA draft, is having knee surgery and he’s already had a
number of other medical issues. Is it possible we have another
Bill Walton on our hands? Walton, you’ll recall, was perhaps the
greatest center in the history of college basketball but outside of
one year where he was a reserve for the Celtics, never came close
to playing a full season in the NBA.
–Best of Bar Chat
The first chat was all the way back on 2/22/99 and the early ones
were brief. [I didn’t start the archives until months later…and I
have to add the copy on the first few years’ worth got scrambled
a bit when we switched servers in 2003.]
Here’s a little baseball tidbit from issue #2:
We go back to a simpler time and the story of a cold-hearted
owner, Arthur Soden, of the Boston Braves back in the late
1890s. Seems there was a great hitter by the name of Hugh
Duffy. In 1894, he set the all-time batting mark with an
astonishing average of .438. The year before Duffy had hit .363.
So Duffy felt justified in asking Soden for a raise.
Soden turned Duffy down cold. Duffy hit .352 in 1895 and
finally Soden gave in, sort of. Hugh received a magnificent
raise of $12.50 a month. Soden also made him captain but,
according to the team contract, the captain was held responsible
for all team equipment that ended up missing at year end. Duffy
lost money on the deal. [Source: “The Baseball Hall of Shame,”
by Bruce Nash and Alan Zullo.]
Top 3 songs for the week of 9/11/65: #1 “Help!” (The Beatles)
#2 “Like A Rolling Stone” (Bob Dylan) #3 “Eve Of
Destruction” (Barry McGuire)…and…#4 “You Were On My
Mind” (We Five) #5 “California Girls” (The Beach Boys) #6
“Unchained Melody” (The Righteous Brothers) #7 “I Got You
Babe” (Sonny & Cher) #8 “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag Part
I” (James Brown) #9 “It Ain’t Me Babe” (The Turtles) #10
“The ‘In’ Crowd” (Ramsey Lewis Trio)
Baseball Quiz Answer: 24 to have hit 50 homers in a single
season –
Barry Bonds…73
Mark McGwire…70, 65, 58, 52
Sammy Sosa…66, 64, 63, 50
Roger Maris…61
Babe Ruth…60, 59, 54, 54
Jimmie Foxx…58, 50
Hank Greenberg…58
Ryan Howard…58
Luis Gonzalez…57
Alex Rodriguez…57, 52, 52 (and counting)
Hack Wilson…56
Ken Griffey Jr. …56, 56
Ralph Kiner…54, 51
Mickey Mantle…54, 52
David Ortiz…54
Willie Mays…52, 51
George Foster…52
Jim Thome…52
Johnny Mize…51
Cecil Fielder…51
Andruw Jones…51
Albert Belle…50
Brady Anderson…50
Greg Vaughn…50
Next Bar Chat, Monday…maybe we’ll explore in more detail the
Killers of Tsavo.
