Somehow these posts did not show up before on my Forum, or I missed them. 

I am still stuck on the pitcher who won two straight MVP awards. 

Hal Newhouser?

Don Newcombe? 

Okay, having guessed twice I will now look.

Oh ! and he ain't even in the Hall of Fame. He was great at the wrong time.

Not in the Hall of Fame but the founding member of the Band of Brothers was our young Prince Hal.

"I never say it's 7:15 anymore. It's a quarter after 7."

- Al Downing

On this day (February 6) in baseball history:

1895: Babe Ruth is born.  He'd be 121 if he were alive today.  The oldest verified age for a human being: 122 years.  Just saying.

1958: The Red Sox sign Ted Williams to a $135,000 contract, making Williams the highest paid player in MLB history.  The 39 year old OF, starting his 18th season with the club, led all baseball in hitting in 1957 with a .388 average.  Despite a  60 point drop in 1958, his .328 average will still lead the AL -- good enough for his sixth and final batting title.

1986: The Yankees sign RP Al Holland, who had five saves for three different clubs in 1985.  The one-year contract has a clause that requires Holland to submit to drug tests (Holland was one of the players caught up in the previous year's Pittsburgh cocaine trials). The Yankees go on to release, re-sign, and release Holland that season, then in 1987 re-sign and release him some more.  Holland pitches 47 IP as a Yankee, with a 6.32 ERA.

2008: Texas Rangers announce that Nolan Ryan has been appointed Team President.  Somewhere, Robin Ventura is heard to say, "Aw f--k, that clip of him whaling on me is going to be on ESPN again tonight."

Thanks crazystengel, I was going to post that it was Babe Ruth's birthday and saw your post here first. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE RUTH !


My daily baseball calendar trivia question today asks:

Who was the first player to reach 3,000 hits in the 20th Century? 

Honus Wagner

In June 1976, Toby Harrah started at SS in both games of a doubleheader. He never touched the ball once in either game. Is the only time that has occurred in MLB history..

Luke Appling once fouled off 24 pitches during a single at bat before drawing a walk...

Johnny Mize is the only MLB player to hit 50 HR and strike out less than 50 times in a season.

Jimmy Rollins owns the distinction of the most hits without hitting .300. In 2007 he hit .296 while collecting 212 hits.

In 1944, Red Barrett pitched a complete game shutout, requiring only 58 pitches..

In 2006, Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a grand slam on the first pitch of his first MLB at bat...

Posted by DoctorKz on 2/6/2016 10:46:00 AM (view original):
Honus Wagner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdK6sR5Sfdc

Good ones DoctorKz, I did not know any of those.

In 2014 Jose Molina had 247PA and scored a total of 4 runs, and collected only 2XBH in the entire season. Somehow he found a way to steal 3 bases...

On August 17, 1957, Richie Ashburn of the Philadelphia Phillies hit spectator Alice Roth with a foul ball, breaking her nose. As Roth was being carried off the field on a stretcher, Ashburn hit her with another foul ball, breaking another bone in her knee. The odds of a fan being hit by a baseball are 300,000 to 1. The odds of the same fan being hit twice during the same at-bat, and breaking bones both times, are even more astronomical.

Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth scored exactly the same number of runs in their careers: 2,174. What are the odds?

Gaylord Perry was a notoriously weak hitter. San Francisco Giants manager Alvin Dark joked with reporters, saying: "They'll put a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run." Then on July 20, 1969, a mere 20 minutes after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Perry hit his first home run in the major leagues.

MLB umpires are required by rule to wear black underwear, in case they split their pants.