How many hot dogs did he in one day I cant remember.
Ruth's numbers are so ridiculous they look made up. He led the league in HR and OPS in 1918, as a pitcher.Mays was spectacular as well.
Does Ruth have the best stats all time, in any sport, ?
I know his pre-game ritual was 3 dogs. I can't imagine sitting downwind of the Babe on a regular basis.
Yeah he probably took big massive alcoholic dumps too.
Yep - he's signed to play more. Doesn't mean he will. Look how close Bonds got to 2000 rbis and 3000 hits. I mean, I wouldn't be against him NOT getting to 3000. But his past two seasons have been downhill (understandably so - he's old), so who knows what next year holds. But, I'm with you. He'll probably get it and cement his legacy as his generation's greatest hitter. The defensive stats are just stuff of legend with Mays, stories...things like that I've read about. But there's also some degree of stat analysis like what's posted below - a sabermetrician's take on defensive prowess of Mays. If you find guys "qualitative or quantitatively" ranking defensive shortstops, you'll find few if any who put A-Rod in the top 10 of all-time. DP-Rk: Positional Defensive RankPRG: PCA Real Games (explained above)PsPRG: PRGs at most frequently played positionCAR: Career Era Adjusted Defensive Wins (I found an error in the way I was quantifying this when I was preparing this analysis that launched a major clean-up of the PCA database files that took hours today...as well as gave me an excuse to change my offensive playing time measurement from Batting Outs to Plate Appearances...it's all good...changes were minor, but it was a necessary logical tweak)PRO: Prorated Era Adjusted Defensive Wins (in the case of pitchers, defensive wins were prorated to 600 PRGs (the average starting pitcher gets about 30 of them per season), and this is done if and only if the pitcher has at least 250 PRGs to begin with...lesser PRG totals are too prone to weird prorating errors...we throw up our hands and leave prorated and peak elements blank in short careers. In the case of all other position players, I prorated to 2000 PRGs and rquired a minimum of 250 PRGs at the primary position and overall to receive a prorated rating.PEAK: I've made a significant change to the way peak wins are calculated. Previously I kept only wins in each season that were above the player's career average scoring rate, but I realized this was really only half of themeasure of variability missed by the prorated wins statistic. Peak wins weren't receiving enough weight, because really all it did was eliminate the down years from the prorated element...it didn't also reward for the up years. So what I decided to do was count the absolute value of all deviations from the player's career average scoring rate...it effectively doubles the magnitude of the peak wins componant, and I believe this is appropriate. Players only received a peak element if they also received a prorated element.Rating: (CAR+PRO+PEAK)/2 if all three elements had data (IOW...if the player met eligibility requirements)...otherwise it was simply the CAR element.With that out of the way:Code:Center FieldDP-Rk First Last PRG PsPRG CAR PRO PEAK Rating1 Andruw Jones 1251 1156 57.24 91.51 19.06 83.912 Tris Speaker 2740 2721 77.6 56.64 32.96 83.63 Max Carey 2440 1616 75.32 61.74 25.94 81.54 Paul Blair 1643 1594 58.5 71.21 22.34 76.035 Richie Ashburn 2095 1964 59.71 57 24.68 70.76 Curt Welch 1151 1102 37.99 66.01 18.28 61.147 Curt Flood 1651 1651 48.78 59.09 12.26 60.078 Lloyd Waner 1770 1624 47.01 53.12 18.05 59.099 Devon White 1814 1655 44.45 49.01 22.71 58.0810 Willie Mays 2855 2756 57.64 40.38 16.14 57.0811 Mike Cameron 1099 1070 34.32 62.46 16.02 56.412 Amos Otis 1861 1773 42.24 45.39 18.68 53.1613 George Gore 1323 1185 34.06 51.49 19.77 52.6614 Taylor Douthit 1037 992 31.15 60.08 13.94 52.5815 Paul Hines 1518 1253 32.58 42.92 28.8 52.1516 Dwayne Murphy 1180 1115 33.05 56.02 14.49 51.7817 Lance Johnson 1315 1259 34.38 52.29 16.67 51.6718 Cy Seymour 1513 1115 36.81 48.66 17.36 51.4119 Jim Busby 1167 1162 32.64 55.94 14.11 51.3420 Brett Butler 2046 1890 44.78 43.77 13.96 51.26
Look up the dude named Donald Bradman, I think I posted about him earlier in this thread.
This is a pic of Foxx from the 20's. Long before gh15 could claim "testosterona". Dude was in shape for an alkie.
I heard it was 112 in under five minutes
There have been claims that testosterone was used by baseball players as early as the early 40's. I think it was Roger Maris that also had the abscess due to a faulty injection of possible steroids combined with amphetamines. Greenies were popular all throughout baseball for along time.
That was one of the big shockers in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four (1970)....baseball players drank, cheated on their wives and took amphetamines
Does anyone know what the Babe's policy was on eating the pussies of whores?
that was mantle in 1961 during the great home run chase missed games at end of season maris 61 mantle 54.
this. Mantle used drugs= period.
Babe just missed like 7 or 8 triple crowns. Maybe more. Though he usually led HRs and RBI, there were seasons he hit .370+ and still came up short of the batting crown..370 and still doesn't lead average! Insane.
Maybe this proves that it was much easier to hit for avg. back then. Nobody hits .370 these days.
