jay@npois.UUCP (06/11/85)
While I can't say I think he's the best player ever, I think he has been remarkably good for a lot of years. Some people love him, some people hate him. I wouldn't have bothered making friends with him, but I'd have chosen him to play on any team, any season. So after Rose breaks Cobb's record, the last big untouchable records are in pitching right. You think anyone will win 61 games in a season, or pitch 757 strikeouts in a season, or 113 shutouts in a lifetime, or 513 wins in a lifetime, or pitch 780 complete games? I suppose that Hack Wilson's RBI record will be a little tough to break.
david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) (06/12/85)
> So after Rose breaks Cobb's record, the last big untouchable records > are in pitching right. You think anyone will win 61 games in a season, > or pitch 757 strikeouts in a season, or 113 shutouts in a lifetime, > or 513 wins in a lifetime, or pitch 780 complete games? I don't think we should seriously worry ourselves over pitching "records" set before the baseball field assumed it's modern dimensions. It's easier to win 61 games if you can pitch every day or every other day, for example, and humans CAN do that if they pitch from substantially closer to the plate. In fact, there are a LOT of pitchers I could think of that would look positively awesome pitching from a distance of 45 feet... At least Wilson's RBI record was established on a field with the full dimensions! We can discuss it seriously... David Rubin