Radical Baseball

Stimulating, provocative, sometimes whimsical new concepts that challenge traditional baseball orthodoxy. Note: Anonymous comments will not be published. Copyright Kenneth Matinale

About Me

Kenneth Matinale: Nice guy.

View my complete profile

Labels

"500" home runs (23) 1961 HR race (67) 3 Home Run games (12) All City: New York (37) Attendance (16) Conduct (381) Constitutional (39) DiMaggio (50) Hall of Fame (117) Home Run rates (60) Home Runs (447) Home Runs career (9) Home/Road (95) Jackie Robinson (26) Jeter (53) Mariano Rivera (16) Mickey Mantle (247) Negro Leagues (15) Philosophy (337) Righty/Lefty (109) Rules (302) Ruth (190) Safety (33) Salary Cap (22) Signs (50) Stats (774) Strike Zone (18) Tactics (88) WAR (29) Williams (47) World Series (62)

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Remembering Bobby Murcer, born 70 years ago yesterday in Oklahoma City.

Mickey Mantle, Bobby Murcer, Roger Maris - circa 1965-1966.

Posted by Kenneth Matinale at Saturday, May 21, 2016

No comments:

Newer Post Older Post Home

Featured Post

8 batters and starting each inning with top of order fix two dumbest things on the field.

Each of these two improvements will bring up the better batters much more often. Combined, they would improve MLB immensely. 8, not 9, batte...

Search Radical Baseball

Radical Baseball Archive

Popular Posts last 7 days.

Nolan Ryan, Tom House and steroids.

Nolan Ryan could have been using steroids and other performance enhancing drugs (PED), not just late in his career, but also in the 1970s. ...
Jackie Robinson day: enough already!

Am I the only one completely turned off by what MLB has turned into an annual celebration of its own silliness? Is MLB the only organizatio...
If Don Mattingly deserves Hall of Fame, then what about Charlie Keller? Who?

Charlie Keller Position: Leftfielder Bats: Left • Throws: Right 5-10 , 185lb (178cm, 83kg) Born: September 12 , 1916 in Middlet...
Yankee career OPS+

OPS +: On Base Average + Slugging Average adjusted for league and ballparks. 100 is league average. 150 is 50% above league average. For com...
Shortstop seasons: highest WAR 1903-2023.

https://stathead.com/tiny/XjMb3 For single seasons, since 1903 , Playing in the AL or NL, Played at SS ( 75% ) , in the regular season, re...
Nolan Ryan: more on possible steroid use.

Roger Clemens has been indicted and arraigned for lieing under oath about using steroids or human growth hormones. His role model was Nola...
Randy Johnson released the ball closer to home plate than at least 99.9% of pitchers.

Randy Johnson is the greatest pitcher taller than 6 feet 7 inches of all time. That's it. It doesn't seem like such a big deal, co...
Pete Rose with minor league hits, still leads Ichiro Suzuki by 83 hits.

I can't believe this still comes up but during the Yankee game tonight in Citi Field against the "home" Tampa Rays, Yankee ann...
40 Home Run teammates in a season. (Updated 10/6/2023)

Update 10/6/2023: 2023: Three Atlanta Braves hit at least 40 Home Runs: Matt Olson 54, Ronald Acuna, Jr. 41 and Marcel Ozuna 40. Total: 135 ...
Mickey Mantle batting only righty: .323 BA; .400 twice.

Mickey Mantle might have increased his batting average (BA) from .298 to .323 had he batted only right handed instead of switch hitting. A...

Theme images by klosfoto. Powered by Blogger.