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Originally Posted by molenick
I was looking for pinch hitting stats for Ruffing and Lucas but can't find them on Baseball Reference, they only show appearances by position. I do see that his Wikipedia article says that Byrne had 80 pinch hits, but that does not seem likely given that he had only 93 appearances as a pinch hitter. But I can't find a source that has his full pinch hitting numbers.
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Michael
I have followed the Yankees from age 9. I have seen Tommy Byrne pinch-hit many times (1947 - 1957). If it is said that he hit safely 80 times pinch-hitting, then I tend to believe it.
Perhaps the "93 appearances" is considerably less than his actual pinch-hit At-Bats.
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