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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jun 8, 2022 21:10:04 GMT -8
Oh by the way we've won 40+ games. That's an awful lot for just one pitcher. would like a word: 1884 60 Wins. 12 Losses. 678.2 IP. 73 CG. 1.38 ERA. 2672 BF. 441 SO. Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn. The other primary pitcher on the team, Charlie Sweeney, was kicked off the team after getting ejected for drinking too much. After that, Radbourn started 40 of the final 43 games, starting as many as three days in a row. Soon after the final 43-game stretch started, Radbourn stopped being able to raise his arm to do mundane things like combing his hair. |
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Post by beaver1989 on Jun 8, 2022 21:47:26 GMT -8
Old Hoss Radbourn would like a word: 1884 60 Wins. 12 Losses. 678.2 IP. 73 CG. 1.38 ERA. 2672 BF. 441 SO. Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn. The other primary pitcher on the team, Charlie Sweeney, was kicked off the team after getting ejected for drinking too much. After that, Radbourn started 40 of the final 43 games, starting as many as three days in a row. Soon after the final 43-game stretch started, Radbourn stopped being able to raise his arm to do mundane things like combing his hair. Thanks Wilky, Right now I'm checking out baseball box scores from the 1880's in the Chicago Tribune. I use newspapers.com for historical research, plus I think its cool to read stuff that people named Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, etc "may have" been reading.(They weren't reading the Chicago Tribune because they were already dead) Go Beavs! |
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Post by bigorangebeaver on Jun 9, 2022 5:18:55 GMT -8
Old Hoss Radbourn would like a word: 1884 60 Wins. 12 Losses. 678.2 IP. 73 CG. 1.38 ERA. 2672 BF. 441 SO. Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn. The other primary pitcher on the team, Charlie Sweeney, was kicked off the team after getting ejected for drinking too much. After that, Radbourn started 40 of the final 43 games, starting as many as three days in a row. Soon after the final 43-game stretch started, Radbourn stopped being able to raise his arm to do mundane things like combing his hair. Yup. Although I think he could still raise a glass. For medicinal purposes, for course. You can read the definitive story here.
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Post by bigorangebeaver on Jun 9, 2022 5:23:42 GMT -8
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jun 9, 2022 8:20:46 GMT -8
The St. Louis Browns. Gone and mostly forgotten. No one under 70 probably even knows the AL once had teams in Philadelphia and St. Louis. Most under 50 won't remember the old Washington Senators or Kansas City A's. My favorite old-timer is Amos Rusie, the "Hoosier Thunderbolt." Supposedly he was the fastest pitcher of his era (1889-1898). He hurt his arm and was done at 27 years of age. |
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Post by nabeav on Jun 9, 2022 10:52:27 GMT -8
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jun 9, 2022 11:40:36 GMT -8
Yeah, Fred Merkle was wrongly scapegoated for the rest of his life for doing something that was almost universally accepted and never enforced up to that day. Al Bridwell went to his grave wishing he never would have singled, given all the grief his base hit ultimately caused Merkle. This is also an excellent book: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison/9780803259461/The University of Nebraska press is one of the leading publishing houses of outstanding books on baseball history. |
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