OleMissCub

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An interesting story about Black Sox pitcher Eddie Cicotte from Ty Cobb's My Life in Baseball from 1961: Eddie Cicotte: http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/bd9d03ba84_cicc.jpg Ty Cobb and "Wahoo" Sam Crawford (all time leader in triples): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/SamCrawford4.jpg

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Holy Cow! Check out Helton's face at 57 seconds in!!

I saw a baseball history site that was asking for people to come up with a lineup of players from a particular franchise who played ONLY for that franchise in their career. The Cubs is almost impossible. I tried really hard and this was the best I could do: C: Soto (seriously...we don't have any other catchers in our entire franchise history that were worth a crap who played exclusively for the Cubs). 1B: Cap Anson (he played with teams before the Cubs existed, but that shouldn't count) 2B: Don Johnson (ya, really, that's the best I could come up with) 3B: Stan Hack SS: Ernie Banks OF: I can't come up with anyone for any of the three spots...it's that bad. P: Zambrano We'd have a badass team, but so many of our greats like Chance, Hartnett, Santo, Sandberg, or Williams had like 200 AB's or less elsewhere. http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/pos.shtml

Footage I uploaded today of Lou Gehrig's speech. Those shots of him crying are heartbreaking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4msaZTJrTA He truly is the ultimate "life lesson." Gehrig's 162 game avg: .340/.447/.632, 179 OPS+, 37 HR, 40 doubles, 12 triples, 149 RBI, 141 runs, 204 hits, and was by all accounts a tremendously gifted first baseman. http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/gehrig-1.gif Dead at age 37.

Alomar should be a first ballot HOF, but I really don't know if he will be though. Seems like alot of the dumbass voters use this "first ballot" thing as punishment against players they don't like, but know are HOF worthy. In my mind, a player is either a HOFer or they aren't. If they are, then vote for them the first time. In my mind (this is obviously a homer view) they jumped the shark when Ryno didn't get in on his first chance.

I understand why he got the support that he got being that he hated the media, but Albert Belle only got a total of 59 votes combined in the two years that he was actually on the ballot. Look at the love that Puckett got compared to Belle. Both were players with career numbers that were heading toward HOF numbers but were cut short by injuries. Puckett was a first ballot Hall of Famer and Belle got 59 total votes, ever. Puckett was probably the better all-around player on account of his defense, with Belle being the superior hitter, but Puckett obviously wins out in the court of public opinion (or did at that time at least). Belle's 162 game avg in 12 seasons: 6673 PA's, .295/.369/.564, 143 OPS+, 40 HR, 130 RBI, 41 doubles, 182 hits, 101 runs, 89.6 WARP3 Puckett's 162 game avg in 12 seasons: 7831 PA's, .318/.360/.477, 124 OPS+, 19 HR, 99 RBI, 38 doubles, 209 hits, 97 runs, 87.1 WARP3

Rose is certainly a Hall of Famer, but he is terrifically overrated because of his hits record, which he only achieved by hanging around well past his usefulness as a player and to the detriment of his team. During his last 4 years, Rose was a. 256 hitter with a .305 slugging and 2 homeruns in his final 1748 PA. For a guy that couldn't run, or field, or do anything else, he was a real drag on his team. He abused his position as manager to keep inserting himself in the lineup for years, all while much better players than him at that point rotted on the bench. Funny thing about the hits record is that it took Rose 2,619 more AB's to get those hits than Cobb. As far as best player not in the HOF, I'd go with Shoeless Joe or Santo.

I agree, but it isn't near as unlikely as his wins record. Four men, Nolan Ryan, Phil Niekro, Don Sutton, and Gaylord Perry, have come within 60 losses of his record just in the past 40 years. Whilst no one has come within 157 wins of Young in that same time period.

Unlikely, but possible. Hell no. BTW, Chapman was the only player in history killed during a game. Last thing he saw....a Carl Mays pitch: http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/9610/carlmays2vl7.gif Hell no. Although I don't really count baseball records before the turn of the 20th century. The modern record is 30 by Jack Chesbro in 1904. That's certainly unbreakable. Chesbro was a real good pitcher, but that was season was absolutely flukeish for him. Very unlikely. Unlikely, but possible. Very unlikely. Hell no. Unlikely, but possible. Very unlikely.

From a section about Joe Tinker in Bill James' "Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame" book: http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/1672/tinkersci8.jpg

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3469541 Figures. Usually player contracts have a section stating "[He] may be terminated if he shall fail, refuse, or neglect to conform his personal conduct to the standards of good citizenship and good sportsmanship." I'd say choke slamming your General Manager falls under that.

30 people in the AIM chat right now, good times.

I can't place my finger on it, but this Giants broadcast just seems amateurish to me.

I smell Joe Morgan... it's his fault.

How often did the great hitters lead the league in respective stats? I'm going to just go with 10 of the great hitters including Ruth, Williams, Hornsby, Bonds, Cobb, Aaron, Mantle, Mays, Musial, and A-Rod Home Runs: Ruth - 12 times A-Rod - 5 Williams - 4 Mantle - 4 Mays - 4 Aaron - 4 Hornsby - 2 Bonds - 2 Cobb - 1 Musial - 0 SLG %: Ruth - 13 times Hornsby - 9 Cobb - 8 Williams - 8 Bonds - 7 Wagner - 6 Musial - 6 Mays - 5 Aaron - 4 Mantle - 4 OBP %: Williams - 12 times Bonds - 10 Ruth - 9 Hornsby - 9 Cobb - 7 Musial - 6 Mantle - 3 Mays - 2 Aaron - 0 A-Rod - 0 BA: Cobb - 12 times Hornsby - 8 Musial - 7 Williams - 6 Aaron - 2 Bonds - 2 Mays - 1 A-Rod - 1 Mantle - 1 Ruth - 1 (Harry Heilmann or Al Simmons usually edged him out of first in that category during his era.) OPS+: Ruth - 13 times Hornsby - 12 Cobb - 11 Bonds - 9 Williams - 9 Mantle - 8 Mays - 6 Musial - 6 Aaron - 3 A-Rod - 2

Posted these before, but figured it wouldn't hurt to post them again. These are .gifs I made last summer of a lot of the all time greats either hitting or pitching. Babe Ruth: http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/ruthswinging.gif Satchel Paige: http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/882/satchgif4zz5.gif Bob Feller: http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7200/fellergifjb3.gif Eiji Sawamura: http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/552/eijigh7.gif Hank Aaron Pete Alexander Richie Ashburn Ernie Banks Wade Boggs George Brett Roy Campanella Rod Carew Steve Carlton Orlando Cepeda Roberto Clemente Ty Cobb Ty Cobb 2 Dizzy Dean Dizzy Dean 2 Dizzy Dean 3 Joe Dimaggio Larry Doby Don Drysdale Bob Feller Whitey Ford Frankie Frisch Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig 2 Charlie Gehringer Bob Gibson Josh Gibson Hank Greenberg Lefty Grove Tony Gwynn Rogers Hornsby Carl Hubbell Joe Jackson Ferguson Jenkins Walter Johnson Al Kaline Ralph Kiner Sandy Koufax Bob Lemon Mickey Mantle (lefty) Mickey Mantle (righty) Juan Marichal Roger Maris Christy Mathewson Christy Mathewson 1 Christy Mathewson 2 Carl Mays Willie Mays Joe Medwick Johnny Mize Joe Morgan Eddie Murray Stan Musial Hal Newhouser Mel Ott Satchel Paige Jim Palmer Gaylord Perry Robin Roberts Frank Robinson Jackie Robinson Babe Ruth Babe Ruth 2 Nolan Ryan Ron "PUT HIM IN THE HOF!" Santo Eiji Sawamura Mike Schmidt Tom Seaver Al Simmons Duke Snider Warren Spahn Luis Tiant Dazzy Vance Honus Wagner Buck Weaver Hoyt Wilhelm Billy Williams Ted Williams Cy Young (as an old man)

Absolutely. I don't drink much pop anymore, but Coca-cola > Pepsi. It's weird because now when I do drink pop it's usually diet, and I prefer Diet Pepsi over Diet Coke. Same here. Even though I'm a huge Coca-Cola > Pepsi guy, I'd much MUCH rather drink a Diet Pepsi than Diet Coke.

1929 or 1930, something around there I believe. Probably didn't add as many homeruns as we'd think given the ridiculously large dimensions of those parks. you see a lot of balls bounce into the stand in RF at Fenway It was bigger in the the old days. I don't think the right field line was 302 or whatever it is now, until the 40's.

1929 or 1930, something around there I believe. Probably didn't add as many homeruns as we'd think given the ridiculously large dimensions of those parks.

Just wanted to say that Coca-Cola completely owns Pepsi.

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