Baseball History Thread

[cbbryan]

Thought this was interesting. There are only 5 players still playing who made their debut in the 80's:

 

Randy Johnson

Gary Sheffield

Jamie Moyer

Omar Vizquel

Ken Griffey Jr.

 

John Smoltz debuted in 1988.

[OleMissCub]

Thought this was interesting. There are only 5 players still playing who made their debut in the 80's:

 

Randy Johnson

Gary Sheffield

Jamie Moyer

Omar Vizquel

Ken Griffey Jr.

 

John Smoltz debuted in 1988.

 

he's not on a major league roster right now

[cbbryan]

Thought this was interesting. There are only 5 players still playing who made their debut in the 80's:

 

Randy Johnson

Gary Sheffield

Jamie Moyer

Omar Vizquel

Ken Griffey Jr.

 

John Smoltz debuted in 1988.

 

he's not on a major league roster right now

 

I guess he is on the DL until next week.

[Coach C]

IIRC, Smoltz will make his first start for the Red Sox this Thursday against Washington.

[OleMissCub]

Mordecai Brown gif:

 

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/brown-1.gif

 

real shame that there isn't any footage of him throwing off the mound

[Derwood]

Totally random question....

 

Why do guys who are on the DL still suit up in the dugout? I can't think of another sport where injured/unavailable players put on the uniform...

[OleMissCub]

Totally random question....

 

Why do guys who are on the DL still suit up in the dugout? I can't think of another sport where injured/unavailable players put on the uniform...

 

Can you think of another sport where the head coach wear's the same uni as the players?

 

Baseball is weird like that.

[Derwood]

Totally random question....

 

Why do guys who are on the DL still suit up in the dugout? I can't think of another sport where injured/unavailable players put on the uniform...

 

Can you think of another sport where the head coach wear's the same uni as the players?

 

Baseball is weird like that.

 

but at least that's a tradition based on player/managers. having ineligible players suited up makes zero sense

[Fred Hornkohl]

Totally random question....

 

Why do guys who are on the DL still suit up in the dugout? I can't think of another sport where injured/unavailable players put on the uniform...

 

Can you think of another sport where the head coach wear's the same uni as the players?

 

Baseball is weird like that.

 

With the notable exception of Conrad McGillicudy, eh?

[OleMissCub]

Totally random question....

 

Why do guys who are on the DL still suit up in the dugout? I can't think of another sport where injured/unavailable players put on the uniform...

 

Can you think of another sport where the head coach wear's the same uni as the players?

 

Baseball is weird like that.

 

With the notable exception of Conrad McGillicudy, eh?

 

Connie Mack never wore a uni as well.

 

Crap, I think I just figured out why managers wear uni's in baseball. Not sure why I hadn't thought of it before. But when I was writing out Connie Mack's name, my mind went to the other greatest manager ever, John McGraw. John McGraw was a damn good player and first became manager while he was still a player. The same goes for many great players who were also managers back in those days, such as Cap Anson, Tris Speaker, etc. Baseball managers wear uni's because most managers back in the day were ALSO on the roster as players. Duh.

[MSG T]

Totally random question....

 

Why do guys who are on the DL still suit up in the dugout? I can't think of another sport where injured/unavailable players put on the uniform...

 

Can you think of another sport where the head coach wear's the same uni as the players?

 

Baseball is weird like that.

 

With the notable exception of Conrad McGillicudy, eh?

 

Connie Mack never wore a uni as well.

 

Crap, I think I just figured out why managers wear uni's in baseball. Not sure why I hadn't thought of it before. But when I was writing out Connie Mack's name, my mind went to the other greatest manager ever, John McGraw. John McGraw was a damn good player and first became manager while he was still a player. The same goes for many great players who were also managers back in those days, such as Cap Anson, Tris Speaker, etc. Baseball managers wear uni's because most managers back in the day were ALSO on the roster as players. Duh.

 

How could you forget Frank Chance?

[illiniguy]

How awesome would it be if all sports had coaches in unis? Stan Van Gundy.

[Derwood]

How awesome would it be if all sports had coaches in unis? Stan Van Gundy.

 

i'd like to see JoePa suit up in pads

[illiniguy]

How awesome would it be if all sports had coaches in unis? Stan Van Gundy.

 

i'd like to see JoePa suit up in pads

I promise you he could still hit decent.

[OleMissCub]

ok, now this a random ass discovery. I was looking at Jimmie Foxx's page and saw that in 1945, his final year in the bigs he apparently PITCHED a little bit, and was GOOD.

 

1-0, 22 IP, 10 K's, 13 hits, 1.59 ERA

 

how weird

[RedSoxNation]

Totally random question....

 

Why do guys who are on the DL still suit up in the dugout? I can't think of another sport where injured/unavailable players put on the uniform...

 

Probably so they still feel part of the team but most DL guys don't travel with eh team. Also, I am 99% sure if a bench clearing brawl breaks out any player son the DL who are on the bench can not leave the dugout. I remember a few year's ago Allen Embree was on the DL and he left the bench during a scuffle and he was suspended.

[Roast]

ok, now this a random ass discovery. I was looking at Jimmie Foxx's page and saw that in 1945, his final year in the bigs he apparently PITCHED a little bit, and was GOOD.

 

1-0, 22 IP, 10 K's, 13 hits, 1.59 ERA

 

how weird

Woah... That's really cool. He had a 1.19 whip...not bad at all.

[OleMissCub]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/mlbhalloffamers.php

 

Stuck in an airport so I needed a good way to pass twenty minutes. I got 133 out of 232. I only got about 6 of the 20 negro league players on the list. A bunch of the 19th century players were a complete loss for me as well.

[dew1679666265]

Perfect sporcle quiz for OMC - every answer is a player who played between 1876 and 1941.

 

MLB .400 hitters

 

This is also interesting: Home run leaders from A-Z

[erik316wttn]

ok, now this a random ass discovery. I was looking at Jimmie Foxx's page and saw that in 1945, his final year in the bigs he apparently PITCHED a little bit, and was GOOD.

 

1-0, 22 IP, 10 K's, 13 hits, 1.59 ERA

 

how weird

 

That's awesome.

 

Babe Ruth pitched in something like 5 games in his Yankee career. He wasn't that good anymore. I don't think anybody cared that much.

 

Here's another random-ass discovery:

 

Sparky Anderson played 1 season for the 1959 Phillies, his only career big-league season. He had 527 plate appearances that season. He never had another major league plate appearance his entire career. How weird is that?

[OleMissCub]

Sparky Anderson played 1 season for the 1959 Phillies, his only career big-league season. He had 527 plate appearances that season. He never had another major league plate appearance his entire career. How weird is that?

 

That certainly is interesting. Easy to see why he didn't last: .218/.282/.249

 

 

Also, I found a photo of Foxx as a pitcher with the Phils:

 

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/5629/jimmiefoxxwiththephilli.jpg

[erik316wttn]

Sparky Anderson played 1 season for the 1959 Phillies, his only career big-league season. He had 527 plate appearances that season. He never had another major league plate appearance his entire career. How weird is that?

 

That certainly is interesting. Easy to see why he didn't last: .218/.282/.249

 

I'm not saying that he was good, I'm just saying to have so many plate appearances in your rookie season and then never have so much as one more ever again in the majors just blows my mind for some reason.

[NCCubFan]

ok, now this a random ass discovery. I was looking at Jimmie Foxx's page and saw that in 1945, his final year in the bigs he apparently PITCHED a little bit, and was GOOD.

 

1-0, 22 IP, 10 K's, 13 hits, 1.59 ERA

 

how weird

Bah. Doug Daszenzo's career ERA is 0.00.

[MSG T]

ok, now this a random ass discovery. I was looking at Jimmie Foxx's page and saw that in 1945, his final year in the bigs he apparently PITCHED a little bit, and was GOOD.

 

1-0, 22 IP, 10 K's, 13 hits, 1.59 ERA

 

how weird

Bah. Doug Daszenzo's career ERA is 0.00.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199107020.shtml

 

I was at ^^^ game. My wife wanted to leave during the 7th, but I jokingly said I wanted to see Doug pitch. So we stayed. Lo and behold, he pitches the 9th and even gets a K (Redfield). What started as a beautiful afternoon shot to hell.

 

I look back at some of those Cubs lineups and realize how bad they truly were. It didn't seem, at the time, the roster was filled with crappy players, but outside of 2-3 teams, the 80's and 90's versions of the Cubs really were awful.

[OleMissCub]

I just realized that some of the earlier photos I posted in this thread weren't able to be seen. So I'll repost those.

 

These are scans from a 1916 edition of Baseball Magazine:

 

 

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/BM1.jpg

 

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/BM2.jpg

 

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/BM3.jpg

 

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/BM4.jpg

 

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/BM5.jpg

 

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/BM6.jpg

 

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/BM7.jpg

 

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/Bm8.jpg

 

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/BM9.jpg