pete@umcp-cs.UUCP (Pete Cottrell) (11/07/85)
Well, it was a great season and a great post-season; I know that the series
was considered to be mediocre by many, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm
sure that it's because I made much more of an effort to be involved in
baseball this year by attending about 15 Orioles games and seeing every
AL team except for Texas in the process.
Some thoughts:
- Will someone in the Toronto organization please get some decent
looking numbers put on their uniforms?
- I am certainly not a Yankee fan, but I have become a Don Mattingly fan.
I guess I am just drawn to good-slugging, clean-fielding, clutch-hitting
firstbasemen (My favorite is Eddie Murray). I have to give Don the nod
for AL MVP. [This line was actually written before the World Series. I
still give Mattingly the nod, but it would a reasonable choice to take
Brett over him]
- While discussing AL rookie-of-the-year candidates, someone on the net
mentioned Larry Sheets of the Orioles as a possible winner. He started off
the best of any of them, I think, but wasn't heard of for several months
during the summer. He did finish strong, though. For your consideration,
some of his numbers:
AB R H HR RBI BA
-- - - -- --- --
328 43 86 17 50 .262
- Minor flame: I really hate seeing people refer to the league that isn't
their favorite as the 'minor league'. I don't think there is real evidence
to support such a claim, no matter which league it is directed at. I realize
that it is reasonable to like one league better and to even root against
the 'other guys'; hell, I prefer the AL having grown up with the Senators
and the Orioles. But to relegate the other league to the status of the real
minors is ridiculous and only shows the person's staunch chauvinism. I don't
know, maybe people really do feel that way, but I find it kinda hard to
understand. I am not just an AL fan nor just a NL fan; to quote a famous
past president, "Ich bein ein Baseball Fan".
- Ok, down off my soapbox. To while away the long cold off-season, we fanatics
must turn to trades and trivia. Here is some of the latter:
1. We all have heard questions about some rookie hitting a home run or
grand slam in his first at-bat. Here's something a bit different:
what rookie got 2 hits in his first 2 at-bats, in the same inning?
2. When Darrell Evans hit his 30th homer this year, I caught the tail end of
this question, so I am not sure it is correct. But I think it goes like
this: Evans became the 7th player to hit 30 or more home runs in a
season for 3 different teams. Who are the others? With a minimum of
research, I was able to find 6 such players, including Evans. Is 7
the correct answer?
Send the answers to me and I will summarize. (If I don't, yell at me, since
I get frustrated when I don't see the answers from the original poster
float by - yet another minor flame, directed either at these people or at
the software).
- Congrats to the Royals. I saw the Tigers come back in '68, and the Pirates
do it to my O's in 1979, but what KC had to do to win was amazing. I among
many didn't think they had a snowball's chance, but....it just shows to go
you: Baseball is amazing.
Take care.
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