Fun With Retrosheet: Come-From-Behind Batting Champions
Trent McCotter sent me a note yesterday pointing out that Matt Kemp has very nearly closed a recent 19-point gap in the NL batting race as part of his three-prong effort to capture the triple-crown....
View ArticleFun With Retrosheet: Come-From-Behind Batting Champions, An Update
John Pastier was wondering (among other things) about the record for the most days leading the league in batting average without winning the title. Here’s the list: Player Year LED DNL DNQ First Last...
View ArticleFun With Retrosheet: Players With The Highest Percentage of Post-Season Homers
A quick one today: here are the players who have hit the highest percentage of their home runs during the post-season: Player First Last REG POST PCT Mickey Lolich 1963 1979 0 1 1.0000 Don Gullett 1970...
View ArticleFun With Retrosheet: League Leaders With the Fewest Games Played
Cliff Blau recently mentioned to me that Vince Barton led the NL in getting hit by pitches in 1931 despite playing only 66 games and wondered what were the fewest games for players leading their...
View ArticleFun With Retrosheet: Nelson Cruz Made Me Do It
Normally, I try to find someone else to blame for suggesting one of these posts, but this silly one is all mine. After noticing that Nelson Cruz had seven RBIs in the eleventh innings of Texas’ playoff...
View ArticleMultiple Hitting Streaks
While writing another article, I noticed that on April 18, 1931, Freddie Lindstrom and Mel Ott both extended long hitting streaks at the Baker Bowl, Lindstrom hitting in his 36th straight game there...
View ArticleFun With Retrosheet: Do Only Slow Runners Ground into a Lot of DPs?
There was a discussion recently on SABR-L about whether we can reliably determine that a player was slow from his offensive statistics. Several markers were proposed: low stolen base totals, a poor SB...
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