We did that at PSU one time (at least we tried). It was the night that Penn State played Pitt in the NIT back in the early 90's. We were somewhere around 50 and I had to leave because I had front row seats to the game. I puked just before I got to Rec Hall. Enjoyed the game but never had the opportunity to try the 100 shots thing again.
FC/OT: Mindboggling baseball stats/records.....
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Another non-baseball stat, One of the most amazing stats that I have ever heard is the fact that Wayne Gretzky, who is the all time leading goal scorer in NHL history, would still be the all time NHL points leader if he never scored a goal. That's just about being so much better than everyone else.
Roberto Clemente is the only player in MLB history to hit a ‘walk-off-inside-the-park’ grand slam home run, doing so on July 25, 1956, at 21 years old. Just one of many amazing achievements in this amazing man's all too short heroic life.
I would love to hear the radio broadcast call of that at bat.
Riley Greene for the Tigers just did this yesterday...though it was in the 5th inning.
Bob Uecker hit 14 career HRs, 3 of them off of HOF pitchers -- Gaylord Perry, Sandy Koufax (in the same year, the only 2 HRs he hit in '65), Ferguson Jenkins.
The home run record for brothers is held by Henry (755) and Tommy (13) Aaron. The stolen base mark is held by Honus (722) and Al (4) Wagner.
Bill James has said that the best team from a single state would be from Maryland. Ruth, Foxx, Lefty Grove, Home Run Baker, Cal.
Jack Billingham
Johnny Bench
Tony Perez
Joe Morgan
Pete Rose
Davey Concepcion
George Foster
Caesar Geronimo
Ken Griffey, Sr
"... And this one belongs to the Reds!!"
During my teen years it was more about Eric Davis, Kal Daniels, Paul O’Neil, Tom Browning, Jose Rijo, Danny Jackson, and the nasty boys.
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* Pistol Pete Maravich averaged 44.2 points per game for LSU over 3 year, before the 3-point line. Someone actually calculated by looking at a combo of game shooting stats/film, that had there been a 3-point line, he would have averaged almost 59 PPG!
Whenever I see this cited I always wonder how differently he would have been guarded if there was a 3 point shot …
...or how many more 3 pointers he would have attempted (and made) had he grown up w/ the 3 point shot. If they came out on him, he would just go around them to the hoop.
Willard White holds the record for most complete games in a season with 75. Last year Jordan Lyles led with 3 complete games.
I call total BS on it...that would mean he's gaining an extra ~15 points/game from 3 point shots. Even if he gained an extra point/game from getting fouled shooting a 3, that would mean he'd need to make 14 three pointers each game. In his career, he made 16.7 field goals/game. Are we really supposed to believe that over 83% of his makes were from behind the arc? It's a good urban legend, but zero chance that it's true.
* Pistol Pete Maravich averaged 44.2 points per game for LSU over 3 year, before the 3-point line. Someone actually calculated by looking at a combo of game shooting stats/film, that had there been a 3-point line, he would have averaged 59 PPG!
"Dale Brown, who coached at LSU after Press and Pete were there - Dale Brown went back and charted all the games with the running score. Maravich, free throw. Maravich, 22 foot jumper. Maravich, layup. And he calculated that with the current college three-point rule at 19.9 [feet], Pete Maravich would have averaged 13 three-point makes per game which would have given him a career average of 57 points per game under today's rules. That guy is unbelievable."
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"Dale Brown, who coached at LSU after Press and Pete were there - Dale Brown went back and charted all the games with the running score. Maravich, free throw. Maravich, 22 foot jumper. Maravich, layup. And he calculated that with the current college three-point rule at 19.9 [feet], Pete Maravich would have averaged 13 three-point makes per game which would have given him a career average of 57 points per game under today's rules. That guy is unbelievable."
Of course not. Just like a Vince Lombardi coached team never won the Lombardi Trophy (though they won the first 2 Super Bowls).Cy Young started 815 games and completed 749.
AND...Although he won 511.....he never won the Cy Young Award!
Not exactly a baseball stat, but I believe @LionJim taught a student who was related to a guy who played in Cincinnati with Joe Nuxhall.
Yeah, two students, grandchildren of Dick Sipek. Sipek was deaf, from Jacksonville, IL, my wife’s hometown, had his time in the show during World War II. Boy, his grandchildren were fine people, good students.
One time early in my career I taught this middle-aged man during a summer program for mathematics teachers of deaf high school students and thirty years later I taught his grandson. Wow, a really high character young man, still is, a math major. That was my job, work with these superb young people for four years, and help them grow, rinse and repeat. I loved my job.
Dick Sipek was a golf buddy of mine. Even though he only played in the majors for one year, he remained connected with the Reds for the remainder of his life. More than once when we were in golf tournaments in or near a town that had a MLB team, while we were resting in our hotel in the evenings a couple of the coaches from either the local or visiting team showed up looking for Dick.
When Sipek was a student at the Illinois School for the Deaf, I believe his baseball coach was Luther Haden "Dummy" Taylor who won around 100 games as a pitcher for the Giants.
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"Rounding third and heading for home" is on the side of Great American Ballpark.....
Trying to convince my wife to go the game there Friday night!"Rounding third and heading for home" is on the side of Great American Ballpark.....
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