Surprising facts

[Peter_Spaeth]

Anything goes here. I will start with one that surprised me. Greg Maddux spent LESS than half his career on the Braves.

[Casey2296]

Minnie Minoso played 5 decades of MLB baseball.

[Jim65]

Mickey Mantle only hit 30 doubles one time in his career.

[Casey2296]

During his 19 year major league career of 575 games including 17 postseason games, Jim Palmer never surrendered a Grand slam or allowed back to back homeruns.

[G1911]

Reggie Jackson never hit 30 or more homers in back to back seasons.

[Casey2296]

Bigfoot is real...

Oh, sorry, wrong sub.

[clydepepper]

On September 26th, 1964, rookie Mel Stottlemyre, in only the 12th game of his career, shutout the Washington Senators 7-0

AND...

He was 5-for-5 at the plate...the last pitcher to get five hits in a game!



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[John1941]

Originally Posted by G1911

Reggie Jackson never hit 30 or more homers in back to back seasons.

That's honestly stunning.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by John1941

That's honestly stunning.

Reggie hit exactly 29 home runs 3 times. Those 3 seasons manage to break 4 back to back 30 home run season pairings. He would have had 4 such paired seasons if he’d hit just 3 total home runs in the right years.

[Casey2296]

In 1971 the Pittsburgh Pirates were the first team to field an all-black line up. In 1970 Dock Ellis of the same Pittsburgh Pirates pitched a no hitter while high on LSD. The 70's was definitely a fun decade.

[Lucas00]

Nellie Fox Never Struck out more than 18 times in a single season.

Imagine having a bad few days and that’s all of your Strikeouts for the year every year for your entire career.

[seanofjapan]

Japan’s NPB draws more fans per game than MLB does.

[ClementeFanOh]

The most prolific MLB hitter of the decade of the 1950s was...Richie Ashburn.
2nd place? Nellie Fox. When I originally was aked this trivia question, my
answer was Stan the Man. He was 3rd... Trent King

[jthorst75]

Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz and Lucille LeSueur have never been in my kitchen.
Good stuff guys, keep em coming

[TUM301]

23 years ago, Fernando Tatis hit 2 grand slams in ONE inning, off the SAME pitcher. Wow talk about taking one for the team !

[Casey2296]

♦ Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn, in his career ...

Pitching: 363 wins — 356 with Braves, 4 with Mets, 3 with Giants
Batting: 363 hits — 356 with Braves, 4 with Mets, 3 with Giants
Playoff pitching: 4 wins
Playoff batting: 4 hits
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[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

♦ Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn, in his career ...

Pitching: 363 wins — 356 with Braves, 4 with Mets, 3 with Giants
Batting: 363 hits — 356 with Braves, 4 with Mets, 3 with Giants
Playoff pitching: 4 wins
Playoff batting: 4 hits
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THAT IS AMAZING!!!

Great Research!


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[packs]

Mark Lemke had 3,664 career plate appearances but was never hit by a pitch. It is the major league record.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by packs

Mark Lemke had 3,664 career plate appearances but was never hit by a pitch. It is the major league record.

Conversely, Hughie Jennings holds the all time record for HBP with 287.

[1952boyntoncollector]

didnt prince fielder and cecil fielder have equal amount of home runs? I too lazy to check

Also Pat Tabler hit better than anyone alive with the bases loaded..

[Casey2296]

Stan Musial rapped out 3,630 hits during his 22 seasons with the Cardinals, the fourth-highest total in MLB history.

Musial, a model of sustained, consistent excellence during his Hall of Fame career, had exactly 1,815 hits at home and 1,815 hits on the road. And though he obviously wasn’t much of a stolen-base threat, he also had exactly 39 stolen bases at home and 39 on the road.
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[packs]

Bobby Richardson is the only World Series MVP to play for the losing team.

[seanofjapan]

Isao Harimoto is the only pro ball player to have ever had a nuclear bomb dropped on him.

He is also Japan’s career hits leader.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by seanofjapan

Isao Harimoto is the only pro ball player to have ever had a nuclear bomb dropped on him.

He is also Japan’s career hits leader.

That's good knowledge. Harimoto dropped a few bombs of his own on opposing pitchers.

[seanofjapan]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

That's good knowledge. Harimoto dropped a few bombs of his own on opposing pitchers.

For sure.

The guy has the most insane “overcoming adversity” back story of any athlete in history.

At 4 years old his right hand was crushed and burned when a truck ran over it, leaving it permanently disfigured.

So he became a lefty.

A couple years later he is in Hiroshima when the bomb drops, he only survived because his mom threw herself on top of him.

He spent the next week watching his sister slowly die of her injuries in the ruins of their home.

A few months later, after the war ended, his father got on a ship sailing to Korea to get a new job to support the family.

The ship sank and his father died, leaving the family completely destitute.

All this happenned to him before his tenth birthday.

Then he went on to play 20 plus seasons in NPB, cracking out more than 500 hone runs and 3,000 hits, the only Japanese player to ever accomplish both. All done with only one functioning hand and with the threat of cancer from the bomb developing at any moment.

Incredibly, he is still alive and kicking today. Biggest bad ass in baseball history as far as I’m concerned.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Anything goes here. I will start with one that surprised me. Greg Maddux spent LESS than half his career on the Braves.

Times have changed
And we've often rewound the clock
Since the Puritans got the shock
When they landed on Plymouth Rock
If today
Any shock they might try to stem
'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock would land on them
In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
Now heaven knows
Anything Goes
Good authors too
Who once knew better words
Now only use four letter words
Writing prose
Anything Goes
If driving fast cars you like
If low bars you like
If old hymns you like
If bare limbs you like
If Mae West you like
Or me undressed you like
Why nobody will oppose
When every night
The set that's smart
Is intruding on nudist parties
In studios
Anything Goes
When Missus Ned McLean, God bless her
Can get Russian Reds to yes her
Then I suppose
Anything Goes
When Rockafeller still can hoard
Enough money to let Max Gordon
Produce his shows
Anything Goes
The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today
And black's white today
And day's night today
And that gent today
You gave a cent today
Once had several Chateaus
When folks
Who still can ride in Jitneys
Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys
Lack baby clothes
Anything Goes
When Sam Goldwyn
Can with great conviction
Instruct Anna Sten in diction
Than Anna shows
Anything Goes
When you hear that
Lady Mendl standing up
Now does a handspring landing up
On her toes
Anything Goes
Just think of those shocks you've got
And those knocks you've got
And those blues you've got
From those news you've got
And those pains you've got
(If any brains you've got)
From those little radios
So Mrs. R
With all her trimmin's
Can broadcast a bed from Simmon's
Cause Franklin knows
Anything Goes

Anything goes here indeed

[Peter_Spaeth]

Patti Lupone or Sutton Foster?

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Patti Lupone or Sutton Foster?

Ella Fitzgerald did it her way

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Ella Fitzgerald did it her way

I love Ella but not one of her best IMO, too sterile and beautified, supposed to be a raucous song.

[frankbmd]

Casey Stengel was born in 1890.

He graciously signed this for a chubby 9 year old in 1957.



I am still kicking in 2022, just not as hard, and still have his autograph.