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Charlie Gehringer

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Johnny Lumsden — 1 Comment ↓

Standing at 5 foot 11 and 180 pounds throwing with his right hand, while batting with his left Charlie Gehringer was one of the greatest all around infielders before and during the Depression. He played from 1924-1942 totaling 2323 games played (all for the Tigers). Some of his most important stats are the following: 1774 runs, 2839 hits, 574 doubles, 1427 RBI’s, 1186 walks (and only 372 strikeouts), .320 average, .884 OPS, and 4257 total bases. He also had quite a few other impressive stats. Gehringer was born on May 11, 1903 in Fowlerville, MI where his two parents along Continue reading Charlie Gehringer→

The Doubles Leader

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Johnny Lumsden — 3 Comments ↓

Fun Fact of the Day: Tris Speaker is the all time leader in doubles with 792. Tris played from 1907-1928 in which he had a career average of .345 with 3514 hits, 222 triples, 1882 runs, 436 stolen bases, and 5101 total bases in 2789 games played. He led the league in doubles 8 times including 8 times with over 40 doubles. Considering the stats he put up in his 22 years, he is one of the greatest hitters arguably of all time.

What is Sabermetrics?

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Johnny Lumsden — 1 Comment ↓

Bill James introduced Sabermetrics in 1980. Since then there has been countless research on his studies to find out exactly what Sabermetrics really is. There will always be different views and definitions of it but in general, Sabermetrics is just a fancy term for advanced stats in baseball. The basic stats would be the common categories such as batting average, homeruns, runs, hits, doubles, walks, strikeouts, ERA, wins, innings pitched, etc. Advanced stats would be numbers that calculate into a pitchers WHIP, a batter’s OBP, OPS +, total bases, etc. Stats of all current and former players can be found Continue reading What is Sabermetrics?→

Naming Rights of Stadiums

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Johnny Lumsden — No Comments ↓

In the first 37 years or so of baseball, stadiums were usually named after people, famous, events, locations, ect, but starting in 1912 with Fenway Park, stadiums started being named after corporations/companies. In the beginning the owner of a big cooperation sometimes would own a baseball club along with his company, so he/she might have decided to put their name or the company’s name on the baseball venue. For example, in 1953 when President Ford Frick of Anheuser-Busch decided to put the surname (Busch) on Sportsman’s Park instead of naming it after a beer (Budweiser). That was the first big Continue reading Naming Rights of Stadiums→