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It should be noted for the participants that the first all-star game wasn't until 1933, so I assume it only pertains to those people who won MVP's after its existence. It's a good question though, but a tough one. I'm going to throw out the three "one hit wonder" MVP winners that pop into my head, and hopefully you can tell me if it is one of them:
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One of the guys is right. IT'S KILLING ME!
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I won't guarantee this, but it appears one of yours is right. His career ave is higher than one of the correct guesses and I can't find where he might have lead the league. One of your guesses lead 3 times and one lead once. I'm not going to give away names for those still playing, though, just in case. Hmmm, my guess for the guy who led three times is Klein, because he was a monster for several years. I know that Medwick won an MVP, so maybe the guy that led once was Ducky during his MVP season. So it must be Averill or Goslin. While we wait for Sir Meph, check out this video I made a while back of Ducky Medwick. At about :20 you can see Medwick spike the Tigers third baseman in the 1934 World Series. The Detroit fans (as usual) pelted Medwick with stuff at his position in left field. It got so bad that the commissioner of baseball threw him out of the game "for his own good". Needless to say Medwick was pissed because IIRC he was just a single away from the cycle in that game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKgSSVpjMus
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MEPH, hurry the F up. I'm avoiding BR like the plague right now because I want to see if I can get this one right.
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I imagine this thread will still be around in 20 years:
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I'd bet your son has more knowledge of the game than that egotistical nitwit.
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Rays re-sign Pena
OleMissCub replied to Post Count Padder's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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Eddie Collins!!! :P I bet there is maybe 1 or 2 deadballers in the top 50 in all time slugging (my guess would be Cobb, Speaker, or Joe Jackson as the top deadballers)...and it certainly wouldn't be Cocky Eddie.
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OK....I'm trying very, very, very, hard not to cheat because this is bothering me a great deal, and considering how much I love that era of baseball, I really want to know the answer. Power hitting contemporaries of Simmons and Herman and it isn't Ott, Greenberg, or Hack Wilson... the only ones I can think of: If none of those is right then I'm out, because I really can't think of anyone else back in that time that I remember as having somewhat significant power. EDIT: I just remembered another and wanted to add his name to my dying effort to name 1920-30's sluggers (remembered him from "The Glory of Their Times"): I'm pretty sure he had over 30 homers a couple of times.
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Mordecai Brown... edit: oh, just looked at the spoiler!! Nolan Ryan had a rubber arm, so I'm gonna go with him.
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HAHA, ya. I'm all for teaching good fundamentals, but it does make me wonder how many amazing players we may have lost because they weren't allowed to use their natural swing.
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For no other reason than that he was mentioned earlier.... Mr. Mel Ott's crazy swing: http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/ott.gif?t=1200704835 & Mel Ott footage (made by me!)
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Surely his all time slugging isn't that high. He isn't even a HOFer.
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Hmmm.....Here's my train of thought. You said it was a pre roid era that was dominated by a select few people. It also needs to be an era of high slugging, so I don't think it is anyone from the 60's or 70's. It also isn't the deadball era because they didn't put up high enough slugging percentages for any one of them to be ranked very high on all time list. So I'm going to zero in on the 20's and 30's because that was a time dominated by sluggers like Ruth, Hornsby, Foxx, and Gehrig. That's why I guessed Ott, but even though it isn't him, I'm still going to stick with that era and say....
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Without cheating....youngest and oldest players to hit .400
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I consider myself a baseball history nerd, and I was completely mystified by this. So I looked it up. It's interesting that he never got more than 200 except that once.
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Neyer's top 10 MLB seasons of all time
OleMissCub replied to OleMissCub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
That's simply unbelievable. Thanks for digging those stats up.