Baseball Statistics & Trivia
Some interesting
facts about America's pastime
(Some old players,
some new, and with extra on the A's and the Giants)
Some Basic Baseball
Records
Trivia Questions:
Pitching
Home
Runs, Hitting and Not So Good Hitting
Miscellaneous: Base Stealing,
Endurance, etc.
Oakland A's & San Francisco Giants
What's the Ruling?
You might be a baseball nut if…
- You subscribe to Baseball Weekly during the off-season.
- You go to amateur ballgames (Little League, softball, etc.)
even though you don’t know anyone on the teams.
- Many of your summertime meals seem to consist of $6
hotdogs, $5 nachos and $4 cokes.
- You’re still looking for that Todd van Poppel rookie
card.
- The last time you flew across country you planned a stop in
Chicago so you could go to Wrigley Field.
- You own a copy of the Official Baseball Rulebook. And you
understand the Infield Fly and Balk rules.
- You’ve ever scored a game.
- You’re still carrying on a feud with your neighbor over
whether Ichiro should have been eligible for Rookie of the Year.
- You know who pitched the seventh game of the ’68 World
Series.
- You have Spring Training season tickets.
- Your spouse asks where you’d like to go on vacation this
year and you say, "Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland and Detroit."
- You search out the Internet for web sites like this one.
- You design web sites like this one.
 What
the Red Sox 2004 championship means to baseball.
The Golden Age of Baseball: Was
it the 1920s, the '50s, or is it now?
Some reasons to believe we're right
in the middle of the best baseball ever played:
Thanks for the memories -- Cal, Mark and
Tony
Hall of Famer Willie Stargell, 1940-2001
Played 1962-82. 475 HRs & 1540 RBIs in a 20 year career with the Pirates. He led the
Majors in Home Runs during the 1970's with 296. All that while playing for eight years in
a stadium where the right field wall was 457 feet away.
In 1979 when he was almost 40 years old he won the league MVP (shared with Keith
Hernandez), plus the NL play-offs & World Series MVP's--something no one else has ever
done.
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Hall of Famer Ted Williams, 1918-2002
One of the greatest hitters the game has ever seen.
Ted was the last .400 hitter (1941). A lifetime .344 hitter with an On
Base Percentage of .482 and 521 HRs. He won the MVP and the Triple
Crown twice. Ted twice interrupted his career to serve as a pilot in
WWII and the Korean War. He played from 1939 through 1960 hitting .316
in over 100 games in his final year.
On the all-time list Ted ranks 1st in OBP, 2nd in slugging, 3rd in
walks, 6th in batting and is tied for 11th in homeruns. |
Some Other
Interesting Baseball Facts
Some of
Baseball's Not So Good Moments
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