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08-23-2008, 12:58 PM
Posted By: <b>ali_lapoint</b><p>who has the record for fewest walks with at least 450 at bats in a season?
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08-23-2008, 01:09 PM
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Joe Sewell?<br /><br />
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08-23-2008, 01:18 PM
Posted By: <b>Mike</b><p>Has to be Pudge Rodriguez , has he ever walked ?
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08-23-2008, 01:37 PM
Posted By: <b>ali_lapoint</b><p>pudge is correct. he walked only 9 times last year in 502 at bats.
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08-23-2008, 01:43 PM
Posted By: <b>J Levine</b><p>In keeping with pre-war...<br /><br />There are at least three players with fewer...Hick Carpenter walked only 5 times (the rules were different then if I recall) in 551 ABs.<br /><br />Art Fletcher (562 AB)in 1915 and George Stovall in 1909 (565 AB) both walked 6 times in a season.<br /><br />Joshua
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08-23-2008, 01:49 PM
Posted By: <b>ali_lapoint</b><p>did not know about those two with just 6. i guess in keeping with most trivia threads on this board my thread is not actually correct either.
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08-24-2008, 03:55 PM
Posted By: <b>ROBERT ADAMS JR</b><p>Joe Sewell was actually the opposite . In 1925 he struck out 4 times in 608 AB,s !
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08-24-2008, 03:57 PM
Posted By: <b>ali_lapoint</b><p>joe sewell was at bat for at bat the greatest pure hitter in history. not to be confused with the best hitter, i'm saying if i need a batter to put the ball in play i'm turning to joe sewell every time.
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08-24-2008, 05:21 PM
Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Ali you go right ahead and do that. I'll take Cobb or Williams or Hornsby or Musial or... or ....
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08-24-2008, 05:23 PM
Posted By: <b>ali_lapoint</b><p>you go right on ahead. they just might strike out.
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08-24-2008, 06:34 PM
Posted By: <b>Rob D.</b><p><i>joe sewell was at bat for at bat the greatest pure hitter in history.</i><br /><br />If the goal of a batter is to not strike out, then your statement would at least be in the neighborhood of being correct. The main objective of a batter is to reach base, with the end goal being to score a run for his team.<br /><br />Placing too much value on making an out by flying out or grounding out as opposed to striking out is a common mistake.
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08-24-2008, 08:10 PM
Posted By: <b>ali_lapoint</b><p>i didn't want what i said to get confused with best hitter or anything like that. what i was trying to say was that joe sewell hit the ball like no one else. i can't think of anyone else who put the bat on the ball like joe sewell and to me that is a great hitter.
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08-24-2008, 08:13 PM
Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Black Ink: Batting - 3 (507) (Average HOFer ˇÖ 27) <br />Gray Ink: Batting - 75 (313) (Average HOFer ˇÖ 144) <br />HOF Standards: Batting - 42.9 (115) (Average HOFer ˇÖ 50) <br />HOF Monitor: Batting - 68.0 (269) (Likely HOFer &gt; 100) <br /><br />And there you have it, the best pure hitter in history.<br />Why am I even having this disucssion? Laughing out loud.
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08-24-2008, 08:33 PM
Posted By: <b>Rob D.</b><p>I understood what you meant, Ali. You think that putting the ball in play -- not striking out -- is the definition of a great hitter.<br /><br />You were clear on that.<br /><br />Clear ... and wrong.
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08-24-2008, 08:37 PM
Posted By: <b>ali_lapoint</b><p>no biggie
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08-24-2008, 10:26 PM
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Peter--<br /><br />What's with the umlauts? Why do I have a sudden craving to listen to Motörhead and eat wienerschnitzel? <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />
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08-25-2008, 06:01 AM
Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>For some reason when I cut und paste from Baseball Reference it comes out that vay.