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THE quintessential dwarf
Somehow ended up watching old youtubes of kirk gibson world series homes, Junior Griffey vs McGwire homerun race in 97, and other sorts of nostalgic things.
Mike Schmidt was the HR champ 6 times, the aforementioned Kirk Gibson and Kirby Puckett. Junior Griffey? Paul Molitor, Alan Trammell? Edgar Martinez? Fred McGriff, Andre Dawson? Don Mattingly?
And in addition, baseball is awesome
Mike Schmidt was the HR champ 6 times, the aforementioned Kirk Gibson and Kirby Puckett. Junior Griffey? Paul Molitor, Alan Trammell? Edgar Martinez? Fred McGriff, Andre Dawson? Don Mattingly?
And in addition, baseball is awesome
Going into the final days of the 1910 season, Cobb had an .004 lead on Nap Lajoie for the American League batting title. The prize for the winner of the title was a Chalmers automobile. Cobb sat out the final games to preserve his average. Lajoie hit safely eight times in a doubleheader, but six of those hits were bunt singles. This later came under scrutiny since it was rumored that the opposing manager had instructed his third baseman to play extra-deep to allow Lajoie intentionally to win the batting race over the generally-disliked Cobb. Although Cobb was credited with a higher batting average, it was later discovered that one game was counted twice so that Cobb actually lost to Lajoie.
As a result of the incident, American League president Ban Johnson was forced to arbitrate the situation. He declared Cobb the rightful owner of the title, but car company president Hugh Chalmers chose to award one to both Cobb and Lajoie.