Sorry to bother you with this, but in 1891 Mickey Welch pitched 14 CGs, of which he won 5 and lost 9. The MLB.com, baseball-reference.com, and retrosheet.org...
The first thing we ought to do is determine who was awarded the victory in such cases. If the award was proper under the rules and/or practices of the day,...
Dan: The 1892 Spalding Guide showed Welch with 5-11 for the 1891 season. He was 1-4 vs Boston, 2-1 vs Brooklyn, 0-2 vs Cincinnati, 0-1 vs Cleveland, 0-3 vs...
This should make for some lively conversation... http://tinyurl.com/jc75j Drawing the line at 1969 By Jayson Stark ESPN.com In 1900, there was no such thing as...
Of course, thanks to the new fancy HTML encoding, the URL is not clickable (at least in my mail program.....) (And you would think that it would be EASIER for...
I apologize for asking about yet another W-L decision from long, long ago, but, well, I want to try to understand the rationale behind awarding these Ws and...
Per ICI, Mullane got the win in this game (toward a season record of 23-26). Radbourn's sheet shows a 10-13 record, but there is another win pencilled in for...
I checked the ICI sheets on this issue. Unfortunately, it only clouded things more than they were. It would have been helpful if JP had mentioned the date of...
... Radbourn 1891 is 11-13 in the first edition Baseball Encyclopedia, so the handwritten note is incorporated. Is that generally true of the handnotes that...
For the benefit of those who don't know, the "ICIs" refer to computer-generated, day-by-day records assembled by Information Concepts, Incorporated in the late...
Obviously, I meant 1890 for the PL. Bill Deane << The ICIs cover the AA (1882-91), UA (1884), PL (1908), NL (1891-1902), AL (1901-04), and FL (1914-15) >>...
The record books list the record for most consec. games appearing as a pitcher at 13, held by two men. I'm sure the days of the 1870s and 1880s, when the same...
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2006_06_10_balmlb_minmlb _1 He did it again. 5 consecutive games and counting for reaching base 4 times. ...
I think Kevin Frandsen of the Giants was hit by pitch in his first four games this season. Tom Stillman ... __________________________________________________ ...
... Here are the longest streaks like this that I've found; of course, there may very well have been longer ones out there, but I just haven't found them....
I think this will be of interest to members of the Baseball Records Committee as well. Rod Nelson ... <a-nathan@...> wrote: Greetings to all involved with the...
Rick Helling of Milwaukee struck out three Tigers in the first inning while only throwing nine pitches to tie the 'record' (more of a feat I guess). Here are...
This is always one of those records (I agree with Trent as more of a "feat") that amaze me along with the one where the side is retired on three pitches. In...
Here's an apparently unrecognized accomplishment for Hack Wilson that I came across on his daily sheets. On August 24, 1927, he had 6 extra- base hits in the...
Mark Grudzielanek of KC has now gone 93 consecutive games at 2B since last making an error, dating back to last season. Here are the records on the horizon for...
I got the below request but don't know who is studying this. Anybody have any ideas? Lyle I'm looking to do a feature or enterprise story on the decline in...
Is it Chuck Rosciam? -- Steve Gietschier Senior Managing Editor, Research Sporting News 14500 S. Outer 40, Suite 300 Chesterfield, MO 63107-5781 314 485-6387 ...
Steals of Home were something of a passion for our late, lamented founder, Bob Davids. Certainly Retrosheet data can illuminate us on the trends over the past...
I gather from context that perhaps this record is for consecutive games with an extra base hit??? ... I gather from context that perhaps this record is for...
Those of us over about 45 will remember Rod Carew setting a record for steals of home. That record is now held by Ty Cobb...... Stephen Roney President, Allan...
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