Now, this probably isn’t the absolutely worst card in the world. However, as I was going through my ‘91 set last night, I did a double take when running across Mr. Sosa’s card with 31-22 and 51-40. This was during Sosa’s three-year stint with the White Sox. He a bit…
by Scott Fennessy I read one of the league opening articles recently and would have written this article earlier but my full time job is really busy so I am just now getting around to this. The part of the article stated looking for honest managers. I admittedly laughed and…
I defy anyone to find something wrong with this card. It has everything… speed, versatility, average, and of course, power and lots of it. As the card indicates, it’s the 1931 Josh Gibson card. Not only does it have six power numbers (1-1-2-3-6-6) but three 7s and an 11. Gibson…
Steve Stein emailed me to tell me that the Transcontinental Baseball League have released the names of this year’s TBL Hall of Fame induction. It’s quite a worthy class. The Transcontinental Baseball League has announced its class of 2013. Greg Maddux (league best 403 Wins, 5323 IP) was selected on…
by Scott Fennessy 5/30/1905, Cincinnati OH Palace of the Fans The Cubs and Reds meet again and the Cubs have been surging while the Reds have been treading water. “Big Ed” Reulbach for the Cubs against Charlie Chech of the Reds. Billy Maloney who is having a great season starts…
It was about time I got Joltin’ Joe in on Monday. Taking a look at DiMaggio’s stats, I was impressed by one thing. Every year he played in the majors, he was on the All-Star team and all but one year, he was in the running for the MVP (the…
This will probably be my last post until after the Christmas holiday. I actually have a Monster Card Monday article that is queued up and will post automatically on Christmas Eve (we’ll see if that works). In the spirit of Christmas, I won’t be a Scrooge and post a Terrible…
Just a few more calculations I did. This will probably be the last of my ‘By the numbers’ series. Here are the rest: Pitching Defense Offense Fastest players according to Master Game speed ratings… Player Speed Emilio Bonifacio 20 Pedro Ciriaco 19 Rajai Davis 19 Tony Campana 19 Eric Young…
David Ortiz Double ones and five EBH numbers This the third in my ‘By the numbers’ series. First I crunched the disk’s numbers on the 2012 pitchers. Then I took to the defense ratings. Tonight, I’m looking at the best (and worst) of the 2012 offense. I’ll tell you which…
Yadier Molina: Tops in fielding (C-9) and Th rating (+6) Yesterday, I posted the first in this ‘By the numbers’ series on Pitching. Today, it’s all about the fielding. I’m just going to break down the fielding ratings by position. I’m going to do it a little different this year. …