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When do yo think the MLB regular season will start?

On time
- 1 (33.3%)
Late, but on or before April 15th
- 0 (0%)
April 16th through April 30th
- 0 (0%)
May 1st through May 15th
- 2 (66.7%)
May 16th through May 31st
- 0 (0%)
Jun1st through June 15th
- 0 (0%)
June 16th through June 30th
- 0 (0%)
After June 30th
- 0 (0%)
No Season
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: February 13, 2022, 10:41:25 PM


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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #225 on: August 14, 2018, 06:34:32 PM »

 Nap Lajoie?
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« Reply #226 on: August 14, 2018, 06:38:12 PM »

I would bet the Williams, Mantle and Bonds are also on that list.

Mantle did it twice. (BS)
Williams did it twice. (That makes at least three people.) He also hit it in 1955, but while he got over 400 ABs he only played 98 games - not sure if that qualifies. (BS)
Bonds did it twice. (That makes four.) (BS)

Ruth was 8 times! He and Bonds were close to it for their lifetime stats. (YG)
Gehrig was 4 times. (That's six people who did it twice or more. Maybe he meant exactly twice?) (YG)
Jimmy Foxx 3 times. (That's seven!) (BS)
Hornsby 3 times (J)
DiMaggio once. (YG)
Manny once. (YG)
Frank Thomas once. (YG)
Belle once, in 106 games in 1994. Does that count? (YG)
George Brett once. (J)
Norm Cash once. (J)


ARod never made it.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #227 on: August 14, 2018, 06:39:04 PM »

Cobb might have snuck in.

And did - not even sneaking.
.420 .467 .621

47 doubles, 4 triples, 8 homers
.650 slugging. He was .029 short in 1911.

Reading glasses! I need reading glasses. (Well, no, just remembering what I was looking for - that was why I copied the thing!)
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« Reply #228 on: August 14, 2018, 06:47:34 PM »

Nap Lajoie?

Slugged .643 his best year. Just shy.

Hank Greenberg? Al Kaline?
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« Reply #229 on: August 14, 2018, 06:52:10 PM »

We're now at 13 of the twelve who have ever done it.

Or is it only 12 because Belle's 106 games don't count?

Bets there are more?

Seems like a good one to me, given the miss on how many had done it twice (three people) or more than once (seven).
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« Reply #230 on: August 14, 2018, 06:54:01 PM »

There are more.
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« Reply #231 on: August 14, 2018, 06:58:39 PM »

Norm Cash was a helluva pluck.

I remember his '61 almost entirely for his .361 and batting title, his career year.

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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #232 on: August 14, 2018, 07:00:16 PM »

That was a career year along the lines of a Brady Anderson career year. Expansion = peds?
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« Reply #233 on: August 14, 2018, 07:21:59 PM »

That was a career year along the lines of a Brady Anderson career year. Expansion = peds?

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« Reply #234 on: August 14, 2018, 07:32:30 PM »

That was a career year along the lines of a Brady Anderson career year. Expansion = peds?
Cork.

Though, of course, he used cork for most of his career, so it really does not.explain .361.
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« Reply #235 on: August 14, 2018, 07:37:09 PM »

I thought perhaps Shoeless Joe, Lefty O'Doul, Babe Herman, or maybe Al Simmons.

Babe Herman was a winner, in 1930!




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« Reply #236 on: August 14, 2018, 08:01:59 PM »

Only 8 more to go, folks...

Maybe he meant 22 of them?!
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« Reply #237 on: August 14, 2018, 08:08:04 PM »

I got Larry Walker at 3 seasons (at altitude)

and

Albert Pujols once

struck out on Schmidt
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« Reply #238 on: August 14, 2018, 09:51:46 PM »

Kimbrel makes an interesting game a little more interesting

good game
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« Reply #239 on: August 14, 2018, 09:54:16 PM »

The Utes looked good, but came up short. Go, Fish!
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