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1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: July 23, 2006 at 10:46 PM (#2108888)Nah, he's not going in, though maybe karlmagnus will argue his case. ;-) A good one, though.
/de-lurk
Seems to have been pretty injury-prone, too. Only three seasons of 150+ games played, just five seasons of 140+ games.
/re-lurk
His 170 OPS+ in 1969 is an AL record for a shortstop. I believe that Wagner and Vaughn are the only shortstops ever to top that.
When I read this, I had to see what A-Rod had managed. His best SS OPS+ has been 167, which he achieved in 2000 in Seattle. He matched that last year at 3B.
For the "Little Caesar" reference? I actually used it once before at the beginning of another thread, so I had to alter it slightly so as not to totally repeat myself. :-)
there was a thread a couple months ago about severe fluke seasons, and I completely forgot about Rico's 1969
his next highest OPS+ was 124--the difference is Cashian
of course, today, we'd say "steroids"
They were talking about it back then too
Sports Illustrated Cover -- June 23, 1969
Nomar still needs another 7-8 years, doncha think?
I remember reading that article...but I am pretty sure in was in 67...It took a lot less slugging to qualify for having "pop" then.
As for the 69 article,...SI occasionally did journalism back then....sigh
Interesting note on steroids in the Gordon Edes column of the Boston Sunday Globe for 4/16/06 (quote):
[Roger] Abrams acknowledges he is not as agitated by the Bonds scandal as many. That may be due to research he is doing for his next book, in which he uncovered steroid abuse by a Hall of Famer -- in 1889. ''I have an article in the Washington Post from 1889 that shows Pud Galvin had a shot of testosterone -- a steroid," Abrams said, making no effort to suppress a chuckle. ''It's gone on forever, but no one really cared about it then."
Eric...Could have been...as I was dizzy at the time from flying back and forth to LA to help keep my sister from being dragged into the Tony Alamo Cult..
I didn't know Dale Berra was even alive in 1926.
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