Posted by contrarian23 on 2/12/2016 7:29:00 PM (view original):
Not Anson, but you are very very close.

I feel so stupid. It's Ned Williamson. Cal Anson's teammate that year with 27. 4 players on that 1884 White Stockings team had 20+ homers

Posted by ozomatli on 2/12/2016 7:32:00 PM (view original):
Gotta be Buck Freeman for the HR record

It's a very interesting question.  I actually think Freeman should be recognized as the correct answer, but the references cite Ned Williamson, 1884.  But that record is very tainted...don't have time to go into it tonight, but you can find details of the 1884 season online if you look for it.  If any HR record ever deserved an asterisk, it's that one.

Posted by contrarian23 on 2/12/2016 10:54:00 PM (view original):

Posted by ozomatli on 2/12/2016 7:32:00 PM (view original):
Gotta be Buck Freeman for the HR record

It's a very interesting question.  I actually think Freeman should be recognized as the correct answer, but the references cite Ned Williamson, 1884.  But that record is very tainted...don't have time to go into it tonight, but you can find details of the 1884 season online if you look for it.  If any HR record ever deserved an asterisk, it's that one.

Can't wait for the details

Posted by contrarian23 on 2/12/2016 9:11:00 AM (view original):
Let's do a couple more random questions today...no real theme this time:

1.) The only player to steal 60 or more bases in a season during the 1940s.
2.) This list of Yankees who won a batting title is incomplete.  What name is missing: Bernie Williams, Paul O'Neill, Don Mattingly, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth.
3.) There have been more than 100 Cy Young awards given out in baseball history...I assume everyone know who won the most games during a Cy Young winning season (Denny McLain 31, in 1968) and who posted the lowest ERA (Bob Gibson, 1.12, same season).  But Who posted the highest ERA?  Not including relievers or strike-shortened seasons, who posted the fewest wins?  
4.) Ten managers in baseball history won 2000 or more games.  How many can you name?

Answers:

1.) George Case, whom no one remembers today
2.) Snuffy Stirnweiss, 1945...also led the league in slugging percentage that year, which puts him in the company of Ruth, Gehrig, and Mantle as the only four Yankees to do both (AVG and SLG) in the same season.
3.) Lamarr Hoyt 1983 for the ERA (3.66), Felix Hernandez 2010 (13) for the wins
4.) Listed on a previous page

Here's a good post on the Freeman/Williamson HR issue:
http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2015/03/31/the-most-dominant-home-run-season-ever/

Makes me think that Freeman may also be the answer to the question asked earlier about greatest % of league's HR hit by 1 player before Ruth.

Posted by contrarian23 on 2/12/2016 11:17:00 PM (view original):
Here's a good post on the Freeman/Williamson HR issue:
http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2015/03/31/the-most-dominant-home-run-season-ever/

Makes me think that Freeman may also be the answer to the question asked earlier about greatest % of league's HR hit by 1 player before Ruth.

Oh, so it was tainted because the fence was short

Posted by contrarian23 on 2/12/2016 11:17:00 PM (view original):
Here's a good post on the Freeman/Williamson HR issue:
http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2015/03/31/the-most-dominant-home-run-season-ever/

Makes me think that Freeman may also be the answer to the question asked earlier about greatest % of league's HR hit by 1 player before Ruth.

Freeman is not the answer to the HR % question.

Posted by contrarian23 on 2/12/2016 11:17:00 PM (view original):
Here's a good post on the Freeman/Williamson HR issue:
http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2015/03/31/the-most-dominant-home-run-season-ever/

Makes me think that Freeman may also be the answer to the question asked earlier about greatest % of league's HR hit by 1 player before Ruth.

Great read. Interesting comparison: Buck Freeman's domination in 1899 is equally statistically significant as brianjw's domination of the WISC championship in 2013 in that the 2nd most dominant season in history is closer to the 12th than Freeman's.

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Posted by ozomatli on 2/12/2016 9:00:00 AM (view original):
Who are the only five players to reach base 300 times in a season they were under 23 years old during?

Gotta be Mr. Tiger Al Kaline, right?

That's a pretty good guess...

His parents must have hated him, though.  If your last name is Kaline,  you don't name your son Albert.

Sort of like if your last name is Brown, you don't name your son Charles.  Unfortunately, I know several real-world Charlie Browns.  Terrible parenting.

I know a Joseph Smith. Didn't found a religion.

I worked for a Jerry Lewis


my next boss' name was Joe DiMaggio

Posted by contrarian23 on 2/12/2016 11:00:00 PM (view original):

Posted by contrarian23 on 2/12/2016 9:11:00 AM (view original):
Let's do a couple more random questions today...no real theme this time:

1.) The only player to steal 60 or more bases in a season during the 1940s.
2.) This list of Yankees who won a batting title is incomplete.  What name is missing: Bernie Williams, Paul O'Neill, Don Mattingly, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth.
3.) There have been more than 100 Cy Young awards given out in baseball history...I assume everyone know who won the most games during a Cy Young winning season (Denny McLain 31, in 1968) and who posted the lowest ERA (Bob Gibson, 1.12, same season).  But Who posted the highest ERA?  Not including relievers or strike-shortened seasons, who posted the fewest wins?  
4.) Ten managers in baseball history won 2000 or more games.  How many can you name?

Answers:

1.) George Case, whom no one remembers today
2.) Snuffy Stirnweiss, 1945...also led the league in slugging percentage that year, which puts him in the company of Ruth, Gehrig, and Mantle as the only four Yankees to do both (AVG and SLG) in the same season.
3.) Lamarr Hoyt 1983 for the ERA (3.66), Felix Hernandez 2010 (13) for the wins
4.) Listed on a previous page

You are right, we don't know George Case at all. have to look him up. Stirnwiess won a batting title, really? He has fallen out of Yankees history as well, not remembered in popular fan culture or official Yankees pantheons. 

Honus Wagner was asked once what his most exciting moment in baseball was. 

He replied "there was this one time when a Giants hitter hit a home run. He ran past me and I said "nice hit" and he said "Go to hell".

When asked why THAT was the most exciting moment he had ever had in baseball, Wagner replied: 

"I had been in the league 3 years already at that point. He was the first person to talk to me."

from Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. p.64

Posted by italyprof on 2/13/2016 9:23:00 AM (view original):
Honus Wagner was asked once what his most exciting moment in baseball was. 

He replied "there was this one time when a Giants hitter hit a home run. He ran past me and I said "nice hit" and he said "Go to hell".

When asked why THAT was the most exciting moment he had ever had in baseball, Wagner replied: 

"I had been in the league 3 years already at that point. He was the first person to talk to me."

from Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. p.64

Ha!

Here's the morning trivia.
This one may be a little easy.

Who was the latest person to homer 4 times, in one game?

Who was the first guy to do it?

I think the first was Lou Gehrig. 

Most recent was Josh Hamilton I think.

99% sure the first was Bobby Lowe.