Pretty amazing baseball stat...
Rogermnj
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Tony gwynn could have played two more seasons.. went hitless for 2 full seasons (0-1100) and his lifetime average would still be over .300
Found that to be pretty impressive
What other amazing stats do you guys know?
Found that to be pretty impressive
What other amazing stats do you guys know?
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gwynn was the best hitter i have ever seen, hands down a true student of the science
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<< <i>Tony gwynn could have played two more seasons.. went hitless for 2 full seasons (0-1100) and his lifetime average would still be over .300
Found that to be pretty impressive
What other amazing stats do you guys know? >>
WOW! That is very interesting.
If Al Kaline would have hit one more homerun, he would have been the first American Leaguer to have hit 400 HRs and have 3,000 hits.
Jerry Maguire: Did you know that Troy Aikman, in only six years, has passed for 16,303 yards?
Ray: D'you know that bees and dogs can smell fear?
Jerry Maguire: Did you know that the career record for hits is 4,256 by Pete Rose who is NOT in the Hall of Fame?
Ray: D'you know that my next door neighbor has three rabbits?
Jerry Maguire: I... I can't compete with that!
Edit to add...
Andres Galarraga is 2nd, with 4.27 seasons worth of strike outs.
WTB: 2001 Leaf Rookies & Stars Longevity: Ryan Jensen #/25
Take away all of Pete Rose's extra base hits and he still has 3215 hits.
Ty Cobb would have to go hitless in 2541 at bats for his batting average to go under .300
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<< <i>I hope memory serves me correct.
If Al Kaline would have hit one more homerun, he would have been the first American Leaguer to have hit 400 HRs and have 3,000 hits. >>
Carl Yastrzemski was the first, Ripken has since joined that AL only plateau, Palmeiro (steroids aside) - I can't think of any others to do it in the AL
Obviously in the NL there is Musial, Aaron, Mays
Career (both AL & NL stats) Winfield and Murray come to mind. If I've overlooked anyone, please correct me.
Lee
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joe Shlabotnik is an unseen baseball player in the world of Charles M. Schulz's long-running comic strip, Peanuts. Charlie Brown considers Joe his favorite player, and spends much of his free time trying to hunt down Joe memorabilia – baseball cards, autographs, personal meetings, etc. Charlie Brown even organized a Joe Shlabotnik Fan Club, complete with a newsletter that folded after one issue. Linus once invited Shlabotnik to a testimonial dinner for Charlie Brown; unfortunately, the ballplayer got lost en route from his day job at a car wash. Another time he was scheduled to appear at a sports banquet where fans could dine with their favorite athletes (the guest list included Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Jack Nicklaus, and Peggy Fleming), and Charlie Brown, Linus, and Snoopy bought tickets to sit at Joe's table. He was the only athlete who didn't show up, explaining later that he had marked the wrong event, city, and date on his calendar.
Shlabotnik was demoted to the minor leagues after hitting .004 over an entire season; his one hit was a bloop single with his team comfortably ahead. One time he promised to hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth; he popped out instead, but circled the bases anyway. His greatest achievements included making spectacular plays on routine fly balls and throwing out a runner who had fallen down between first and second.
After being sent down to Stumptown of the Green Grass League, Shlabotnik eventually retired as a player and agreed to manage the Waffletown Syrups. Sadly, Joe was fired after only one game, after calling for a squeeze play—with no one on base.
One memorable Sunday Peanuts comic strip (which to this day a blown up copy is still on display at the Topps Company) from April 12, 1964 shows Charlie Brown buying five dollars worth of baseball cards (in 500 one-card penny packs) to get a card of Shlabotnik. Charlie Brown frantically rips open all the packs and does not get one. Lucy then buys one penny pack and much to Charlie Brown's dismay, finds Shlabotnik in her one and only pack.
In an earlier sunday strip (8/18/63), Charlie Brown offers her every card he owns in trade for the one Joe Shlabotnik card she has, but Lucy, knowing nothing about baseball, refuses to trade and maintains, "He's kind of cute." After Charlie Brown leaves in obvious misery, Lucy throws the card into a dumpster, claiming, "He wasn't as cute as I thought."
The name "Joseph Schlabotnik" (note spelling) had earlier been used in Peanuts in the strip of 22 February 1957, when Schroeder mentions a pianist, "the incomparable Joseph Schlabotnik", whom he later admits to having made up.
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all hail Joe Shlabotnik!
Mickey Mantle was hit by a pitch 13 times in his entire career! He was not hit at all until 1955, and from the 1961 season through the 1966 season, was hit only one time. (Teach your kid to switch hit!)
Career triples:
Stan Musial 177
Lou Gehrig 163
Rickey Henderson 66