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Posted By: Gilbert Maines
There are four players with over 40 inside the parkers to their credit. All but one are quite believable. Those are Wagner (41), Crawford (51), Cobb (46). But how does Tommy Leach, a .370 slugger turn up second on this list with 49 inside the park homeruns? |
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Posted By: john/z28jd
It was the ballpark,he was a fast guy but not much of a power hitter altho he did lead the league in homers one year,any ball in the gap he could run for days.If you check Pirates stats youll see some big numbers for triples including Owen Wilson's record season in 1912.Some of Leach's triples were actually him getting thrown out at home trying to stretch it,and he 172 career triples. |
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Inside The Park Homeruns
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Forbes Field was an even bigger park when Leach played. 350+ in right and left and 450+ in center. But Leach played alongside Wagner for most of his career and yet hit more HRs inside the park than Honus, while both slugging far less and stealing way less bases. |
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Posted By: ramram
He only had 63 HR's for his 19 year career. Only 14 out of the park? I'd say he was fast! |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
So much of tripling or inside the park HRs is outfielder positioning. When I played little league I hit two triples. Both went right over the bag at 1st and down the line. I was a righty hitter and barely got my bat on either ball but there was no one there to field it until it hit the back fence. |
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Posted By: Judge Dred
That's why I love the game - stats! That's a new stat to me. |
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Posted By: john/z28jd
Gilbert the reasoning is pretty simple and i think Adam summed it up nicely.Wagner was known as a hard hitter so they probably played him deeper.Leach was 150 lbs soaking wet,not too intimidating |
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Inside The Park Homeruns
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Judge: the list which I have is players with 20 or more inside the park HRs. Hans Lobert is not on the list (but Rabbit Maranville is). |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Part of the reason Keeler never hit many balls "into the seats" is because many, if not most all parks that he played in had no outfield wall. If there was an unusually large crowd, some times a rope barrier was ussually put up in the outfield and fans allowed to mill about in the outfield area. |
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Posted By: dennis
ALL-TIME INSIDE-THE-PARK CAREER HOME RUN LEADERS |
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Posted By: tbob
What are his stats? I know he was reputed to be better than average defensively? Does he have HOF numbers? |
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Posted By: JimB
I don't know his numbers, but judging by his inclusion in several E sets, he must have been a star. Many of the E sets are nearly 50% HOFs, so they clearly chose the stars of the day for inclusion in those sets (unlike T206 of T205 which included almost everybody). |
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Inside The Park Homeruns
Posted By: Max Weder
They are listed at http://baseballreference.com/l/leachto01.shtml on baseballreference.com, one of the great web sites. |
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