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  1. OleMissCub
    Anson's OPS+ compared to league average every five years during his career: 1876: Anson 162, NL 96 1881: Anson 191, NL 99 1886: Anson 178, NL 98 1891: Anson 124, NL 98 1896: Anson 110, NL 100
  2. OleMissCub
    These guys who played in the National League were terrific athletes for their time. The only professional team sport back then was baseball. Every town had a team and that town's best athletes played baseball, and nothing really else. Best players on the town teams (that town's best athletes) went to play semi-pro/indy league ball, the best players from those teams went on to the minor leagues in the Eastern League and Western League, the best players from those teams went on into the National League. There were less teams and roster spots were fewer back then, so it was especially hard to bust into the majors back then. This is a pic of the New York Giants from the early 1890's. Those guys look to be some pretty strapping fella's. http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5018/oldballid2.jpg
  3. OleMissCub
    Wrong. I'm sure that most of the people he played with and against were very good baseball players (for what baseball was back then). Baseball was MUCH MUCH more widely played by the common person back then than it is today. There were thousands upon thousands of city teams, and only the cream of the crop would get to play in the National League. It wasn't like people just walked off the street and said "gee, yuck yuck, I think I'll play that there baseball game for the Chicago White Stockings...hey Cap, look'e here at me!!" So I wouldn't dismiss his stats because the guys he played with were "very bad at baseball". How they would stack up against today's players, I'm sure the vast majority are less talented than modern players, no doubt. However, I will dismiss his stats not because of his competition but because of the different rules back then. For the majority of his career, the pitching mound was 45 feet away, fouls weren't strikes, it took 9 balls to walk you, etc. My mental "respect that stat" comes in around the turn of the 20th century with the introduction of the American League and formalization of the modern rules that we still use today.
  4. OleMissCub
    I would make fun of this, but I saw first hand the effect of Karma earlier this year with the Pujols/Soriano thing.
  5. OleMissCub
    His ERA+ with the Cubs is 405!!! Heck, between his time with us and the time with the A's, his cumulative adjusted ERA+ is at 199 this year! Adjusted ERA+ that float around 200 had generally been reserved for Randy Johnson and Pedro.
  6. OleMissCub
    Ogden Nash's famous poem Line-Up for Yesterday, first published in 1949: It'd be fun to write one of these for the second half of the century.
  7. OleMissCub
    Good quality headshots of some of our 1908 boys: Tinker: http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/15600/15619v.jpg Evers: http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/13500/13532v.jpg Chance (looking thoroughly confused): http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/13500/13533v.jpg Three Finger: http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/13500/13525v.jpg
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    Some rare action shots from the Deadball era that I found on LOC: http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/deadball.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/deadball2.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/deadball3.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/deadball4.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/deadball5.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/deadball6.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/deadball7.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/deadball8.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/deadball9.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/deadball10.jpg
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    Was going to post this when the board crashed.....four hours late, but http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t119/execute2587/blackkid.gif
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    Randy Hundley has one of the greatest catcher freakouts on a play at the plate when he started jumping up and down screaming at the umpire. I tried to make a gif of it once, but wasn't able to for whatever reason. It'd be a perfect gif for times like now.
  11. OleMissCub
    Banks, Sandberg, and Sosa. Those three are probably the most identifiable Cubs players in baseball history.
  12. OleMissCub
    I don't know if it's a deep wound, but I won't lie and say that I think Brock wouldn't have helped us in the 60's. He certainly would have, especially in a year like 1969. Other than Williams, in 1969 our main outfielders were Don Young and Jim Hickman who put up these numbers: Don Young (1969): -0.6 VORP Jim Hickman (1969): 6.5 VORP Lou Brock had a pretty good year that year and certainly would have added more to the club than Young, Hickman, or any other outfielder we played that year other than Williams Lou Brock (1969): 35.9 VORP
  13. OleMissCub
    As happens around this time of year, I'm torn between http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6030/faithka5.jpg and http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8863/aintsrg2.jpg
  14. OleMissCub
    OK, then nobody who has ever broken the law can get into the HOF. Whoops. Hell, even The Babe was arrested several times.
  15. OleMissCub
    In that three spot instead of Brock I would have taken (in no order) Dean Slaughter Pujols Ozzie Medwick Hornsby Edmonds Frisch Edmonds Boyer
  16. OleMissCub
    I don't think there is a curfew for National League games. FWIW, they just said on the radio that 1am is the latest an inning can begin. That can't be right. The Rockies and Padres(?) game earlier this year was being played at like 2 in the morning their time wasn't it??
  17. OleMissCub
    I don't think there is a curfew for National League games.
  18. OleMissCub
    Need someone to come hold your hand?
  19. OleMissCub
    Man, Berkman's behavior is funny and all, but it's just cowardly to do that in front of everyone like that. I know you are scared, but man up and don't be seen as a gutless coward in front of a national TV audience and your peers like that.
  20. OleMissCub
    I know, it's just a little lightning. :roll: Berkman is yellow.
  21. OleMissCub
    Indeed. BBTN puts Brock above ROGERS FREAKING HORNSBY????? I don't know about y'all, but where I come from, .358/.434/.577, 175 OPS+ >>>>>>>> .293/.343/.410, 109 OPS+
  22. OleMissCub
    Joe Jackson is a difficult guy to classify because I believe his best seasons came with the Indians, however his fame (or infamy) is with the White Sox. Furthermore, if he hadn't been thrown out of the game, it is likely he would have stayed with the White Sox most of the rest of his career. So he is hard to classify. Tris Speaker is in the same boat as well. He had 9 seasons with the BoSox and 11 with the Indians. Like Jackson, I think his best years came with his first team, the Red Sox. However, 8 of his seasons with the Indians were as player/manager and he led them to a World Series in 1920.
  23. OleMissCub
    Should have been 1. Bench 2. Morgan 3. Rose 4. Robinson
  24. OleMissCub
    Awesome, ESPN's own Joe Morgan is left off the greatest Reds list.
  25. OleMissCub
    D'oh!! Gallagher hits a batter with bases loaded. Gave up 4 runs in an inning.
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