CONTEST: Trivia Question, Multi-Part

[Joshua.Roundtree]

CONTEST RULES:
Members are allowed two posts to guess but may not edit either post. If a post has an edit it will be ineligible to win.

PRIZE:
HOF Auto of Maury Wills from 1999 SI Greats of the Game

QUESTION: At Tropicana Field this weekend, the Rays are facing off in an AL East showdown with the Yankees. As most everyone knows the Yankees Alex Rodriguez is sitting on 599 career HRs, however there is another player in the series that also is on the verge of making baseball history. So the question is, A) Who is said player on the verge of a very impressive statistical accomplishment?, B) Who are the other player(s) in MLB history to accomplish the feat, C) When is the last possible day said player can accomplish the feat?

HINT: The record is age related.

 

[200lbhockeyplayer]

Carl Crawford beating Ty Cobb as the youngest with 400 steals and 99 triples before he is 29.

His 29th birthday is August 5th, so the clock is ticking.

 

[Joshua.Roundtree]

Ding Ding Ding (100 triples but I knew what you meant)

PM me with your addy, congrads.

 

[200lbhockeyplayer]

I'm hoping you can send it to CISCOKID23 instead...he's a huge Dodgers fan.

 

[leatherman]

Carl Crawford is sitting on 399 stolen bases.
He has through August 4th, the day before his 29th birthday, to become the 7th player in MLB history to reach 400 stolen bases before turning 29.
The only other players to reach 400 steals before their 29th birthday are Rickey Henderson, Ty Cobb, Vince Coleman, Tim Raines, Cesar Cedeno, and Eddie Collins.

 

[Joshua.Roundtree]

Carl Crawford is sitting on 399 stolen bases.
He has through August 4th, the day before his 29th birthday, to become the 7th player in MLB history to reach 400 stolen bases before turning 29.
The only other players to reach 400 steals before their 29th birthday are Rickey Henderson, Ty Cobb, Vince Coleman, Tim Raines, Cesar Cedeno, and Eddie Collins.

Correct Crawford needs one steal and one triple in games played before August 5th (his 29th birthday) to join Ty Cobb as the only players in baseball history to have 400 SBs and 100 3Bs before the age of 29.

Leatherman, you are the king of the stats around here, how many players have the 100 triples before 29? If it isn't too hard a queue to search. Crawford is in some very elite company, playing his first five seasons in obscurity, not sure many people can appreciate what he has been able to accomplish thus far in his career.

 

[leatherman]

Ty Cobb finished the 1912 season with 402 stolen bases and 109 triples. He was 25 when the season ended, and turned 26 in December.

Crawford isn't "breaking" Cobb's record by reaching those milestones before turning 29, he is simply becoming the 2nd person to do it (should he accomplish the feat).

Eddie Collins finished the 1915 season with 413 stolen bases and 94 triples. He was 28 when the season ended, and didn't turn 29 until May 2nd the following year, in which he hit 17 triples. I have no way of knowing (no game logs from 1915) whether he hit his 100th triple before his 29th birthday, but it is possible. Anyone got box scores from 1915 handy?

 

[200lbhockeyplayer]

Musial is the only one I think in the modern era to have 100 triples before he was 29.

 

[leatherman]

Here are the players I have determined that reached 100 triples before turning 29: http://www.baseball-reference.com/play- ... reit/8fEBT

I included Eddie Collins, but like I said above, he may not have reached 100 before his birthday that season.

David

 

[Joshua.Roundtree]

Ty Cobb finished the 1912 season with 402 stolen bases and 109 triples. He was 25 when the season ended, and turned 26 in December.

Crawford isn't "breaking" Cobb's record by reaching those milestones before turning 29, he is simply becoming the 2nd person to do it (should he accomplish the feat).

Eddie Collins finished the 1915 season with 413 stolen bases and 94 triples. He was 28 when the season ended, and didn't turn 29 until May 2nd the following year, in which he hit 17 triples. I have no way of knowing (no game logs from 1915) whether he hit his 100th triple before his 29th birthday, but it is possible. Anyone got box scores from 1915 handy?

So Collins would have had about 30 games or so to get 6 triples, that's possible.

Leatherman, in your opinion, would triples have been much more attainable in the pre-war era (same way HRs were less attainable) because of the park dimensions?

Considering this record hasn't been reached post-war, I would think that would make this pretty impressive if he were to do it.

 

[leatherman]

I think that baseball was played very differently back then. A player that hit a long drive didn't expect his ball to go over the fence, and was running hard on contact, hoping to stretch out as many bases as possible. Today, long drives to the wall are often admired by the hitter while he jogs to first, and he usually just ends up on 2nd base.

If you look at the last 20 players to reach 100 triples at any point in their career, they are typically the players that fans love, guys that played the game it was meant to be played, and ran hard from the moment they made contact with the ball.

Here are the last 20 players who hustled their way to 100 triples: http://www.baseball-reference.com/play- ... reit/CU5mk

 

[Joshua.Roundtree]

I think that baseball was played very differently back then. A player that hit a long drive didn't expect his ball to go over the fence, and was running hard on contact, hoping to stretch out as many bases as possible. Today, long drives to the wall are often admired by the hitter while he jogs to first, and he usually just ends up on 2nd base.

If you look at the last 20 players to reach 100 triples at any point in their career, they are typically the players that fans love, guys that played the game it was meant to be played, and ran hard from the moment they made contact with the ball.

Here are the last 20 players who hustled their way to 100 triples: http://www.baseball-reference.com/play- ... reit/CU5mk

Very true. B.J Upton is an example of a player that is VERY fast, but can't use his speed to translate into anything on the field. He pulls too far off his swing and stands and admires it with a very long follow through. He loses a lot of time before he even starts running. I'm going to miss Crawford being a Ray