The 1980's and early 1990's in the National League would have looked a lot different had the Padres not traded Ozzie Smith away to the Cardinals in exchange for Gary Templeton.
Teaming Smith and Gwynn for the better part of both their careers would have been historically fun. It also would...
1980's Official NL Baseball...
Duke Snider
Bob Gibson
Catfish Hunter
Enos Slaughter
Bob Feller
Hoyt Wilhelm
Warren Spahn
Roy Campanella
Billy Williams
Willie Stargell
Lou Brock
Gilmore has the pics. Hopefully he will post them.
to FOUR Hall of Famers:
Don Sutton
Al Barlick
Luke Appling
Hughie Jennings
If there is another day on the calendar with more, I would be surprised. Who knew April 2 was such a big day in baseball history.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/birthdays.shtml
Also, on this date in 1992...
…to Bill Peterman.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/peterbi01.shtml
Born today in 1921 in Philadelphia, PA.
Who is Bill Peterman?
He was a Catcher born in Philadelphia and played for Phillies who wore #12. At the age of 21 he made his Major League debut on April 26, 1942. His last...
Just a random stat/oddity I ran across today...
Bob Gibson has a legendary reputation for intimidation, however he only hit a batter 102 times in his career. One less than the scary Scott Erickson.
Other pitchers with more career HBP include:
Pedro Astacio
David Cone
Aaron Sele
Orel...
Being a baseball fan, I think I should know the answer to this, but I really don't. I know "rules" changed, but what rules? Were they all implemented at the same time? Other than Babe Ruth being absolutely incredible and even better than the legend, what happened to allow other mere baseball...
Name a random player. The next person name a player who played on the same team during the same season. Minors or majors, if you so choose.
Bip Roberts.
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Ha...good luck with this one. There isn't a clear #1, so this will be more speculation than anything. So please provide something (stats, etc) that leads you to think your guy is worthy.
I think Lefty is #1. His ERA+ of 148...
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This should be interesting because there are a lot of good candidates to choose from. Many HOF guys. Did Musial play LF or RF? It will be difficult with the older players because baseballreference.com only shows they played "OF".
The question is, who's...
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This one will complete the infield.
I think Schmidt is the concensus answer at #1. After him, though, it gets interesting.
There are only 10 HOF 3B (non-Negro League), so the pickings are quite slim.