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...
Lyle (et al): I confess. I am doing research on "Steals Of Home" (SOH) by building a mini-database of these events. The project grew out of my research into Ty...
Lyle - ... Though not on this particular subject (decline in the frequencey of SOH) I have been working on documenting the game ending (walk-off) steals of...
http://www.mohawksbaseball.com/newsarticle.asp?ID=278 Hello Jan, Chuck & Mat - Did you happen to see the note to SABR-L regarding a Amsterdam Mohawks vs...
Thanks to all for the quick response on the steals of home data. I apologize for omitting the name of the person who requested it. It's Justice B. Hill, Senior...
... Well, of the 891 steals of home I found in retrosheet's data, I found found nine that happened on the last event of the game: gameid MIN197209010 ...
... And since I was poking in the database, if anybody cares: Based on the data from retrosheet, this is what the last event reported for each game:...
Here are the details of the previously mentioned walk-off steals of home. ... Rod Carew, Minnesota Twins 5, Cleveland Indians 4 (10), September 1, 1972 ... ...
... Yes. Of course those games were called because of rain. The last recorded play of the game was an IBB though. My query didn't check if the game was...
... I suppose those are scores at time of steal. Regarding the different matter of how games end, it should be possible to "cover" many major league games that...
By my count, Greg Maddux participated in his 84th career DP as a pitcher, which breaks his tie for the top mark with Phil Niekro. And he breaks it on a 3-5-1...
Bob Timmerman mentioned that Greg Maddux is now the all-time leader in Double plays by a pitcher. Maddux is likely to retain that record for quite a while. The...
I found three times from 1957 through yesterday: 6-29-1961 (G1) San Francisco (Billy O'Dell) at Philadelphia (Ken Lehman) 6-07-1977 San Diego (John D'Acquisto)...
Obviously because each P had dropped a letter grade ... From: David W. Smith To: SABR_Records@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:51 AM ...
Curt Schilling gave up 9 doubles in a game the other day; this would have been considered the new AL record for doubles allowed by an AL pitcher in a game, but...
It appears that the Elias Sports Bureau is not going to consider the 8 hours and 40 minutes duration for the day/night doublheader between the Yankees and Red...
Bob - ... Just to clarify, I assume you mean two straight games played on the *same day*, not just two straight games. I have to agree with you. While the...