No card busting today! Instead I got five facts about baseball that you probably didn't know prior to reading this post (and if you did, congrats to you)!
5.) Only one player during the 20th century drove in over 100 runs, but scored less than 50 runs in the same season. The player? Vic Wertz in 1960 had 103 RBI but scored only 45 times. Vic Wertz also has the distinction of being the batter who hit the ball which Willie Mays caught in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series (you know, "The Catch").
4.) As of June 24th, 2008, the Pittsburgh Pirates have had 23 different occasions where one of their players hit for the cycle; the most by any Major League club. In second are the San Francisco Giants with 21.
3.) Ben Paschal, a member of the 1915 Cleveland Indians, got just one hit all year. However, his hit on August 16, 1915 broke up Bernie Boland's (of the Tigers) no-hitter with just one out left to go. For those curious, Paschal had nine at-bats that year.
2.) Sandy Koufax hit only one player more than once in his pitching career. That player was Frank Robinson, who was hit twice by him. Koufax hit 18 batters over the course of his career.
1.) Guy Bush, Pat Caraway, and Pedro Astacio enjoy the dubious distinction of being pitchers who pitched a minimum of 200 innings in a season, but had an ERA of 6 or more during that season.
Hope you enjoyed these five facts!
Max
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