NOV: THE BASEBALL GURU ARTICLE
FROM
ONEMOREINNING
BASEBALL RECORDS THAT WILL ABSOLUTLY
POSITIVELY
(YOU
CAN COUNT ON
IT)
TRUST ME, NO
DOUBT
ABOUT IT,
NEVER NEVER BE
BROKEN!!
MAYBE
CY
YOUNG:
511 wins: How in heavens name will anyone break that
record with pitchers going every fifth day and relievers coming in at the
drop of a hat.
1921:397
1922:401
1923:384
1924:424 1925:403.
Forget it. It’s in the bag
WALTER
JOHNSON:
110 shutouts: Who pitches shutouts anymore? Who even
goes seven innings anymore? How about six??
TY
COBB:
Lifetime batting average of .366. Nowadays players
make the Hall of Fame with averages that barely reach .300, if even that.
JACK
CHESBRO:
41 wins in a season: How many people win even 20
games these days?
Chief
Wilson:
36
triples (1912). Nobody is even close. Who is Chief Wilson anyway?
SAM
CRAWFORD:
309
lifetime triples. Who ever heard of Sam Crawford? You should have, he’s
in the Hall of Fame.
ED
WALSH:
464
Innings. With the way pitchers are handled nowadays. 200 is a
lot.
DEACON
PHILLIPE:
5
straight complete games in 10 days in the first World Series(1903). He won
the first three (all shutouts) and lost the next two.
DON
LARSEN:
A
perfect game in the World Series (1956). In order for someone to top that
they would have to pitch two perfect games in a World Series. HA, HA, HA,
HA.
