Surprising baseball facts

[Gorditadogg]

Khris Davis hit .247 four years in a row.

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[Snapolit1]

Columbia University, hardly a big name these days in collegiate athletics, is the only college in America that has three alumni in the baseball hall of fame.

Lou
Eddie Collins
John Montgomery Ward

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Columbia University, hardly a big name these days in collegiate athletics, is the only college in America that has three alumni in the baseball hall of fame.

Lou
Eddie Collins
John Montgomery Ward

University of Michigan has George Sisler, Charlie Gehringer and Barrly Larkin.

USC produced Randy Johnson, and both Don Sutton and Tom Seaver also went there for a year.

Still pretty amazing that Columbia produced 3 HOFers.

Speaking of Lou Gehrig--not everyone knows what a well-rounded athlete he was. He had football scholarship to Columbia and was their pitching Ace. His greatest mound performance came on April 18, 1923, the same day that Yankee Stadium opened, in a game against Williams College. Gehrig struck out 17 batters, setting a school record that stands to this day.

[ajquigs]

Chuck Finley was the first pitcher to have two four-strikeout innings. He did it three times before anyone else had done it twice. All three were in a period of less than one year.

[wagnerj03]

In 1945, Tommy Brown became the youngest to hit a MLB hr at 17 yrs old.


https://www.history.com/this-day-in-...er-tommy-brown

[Snapolit1]

Thanks! The claim sounded reasonable and I guess was correct for many years.

Gehrig had to sit out the 1921 football season at Columbia as a suspension for playing some semi-professional baseball in Hartford the preceding summer under an assumed name ("Lou Lewis" I believe). I do think he played in 1922.

Originally Posted by cgjackson222

University of Michigan has George Sisler, Charlie Gehringer and Barrly Larkin.

USC produced Randy Johnson, and both Don Sutton and Tom Seaver also went there for a year.

Still pretty amazing that Columbia produced 3 HOFers.

Speaking of Lou Gehrig--not everyone knows what a well-rounded athlete he was. He had football scholarship to Columbia and was their pitching Ace. His greatest mound performance came on April 18, 1923, the same day that Yankee Stadium opened, in a game against Williams College. Gehrig struck out 17 batters, setting a school record that stands to this day.

[cgjackson222]

Stan “the man” Musial and Ken Griffey Jr. “the kid” share a birthday (November 21) and a hometown--Donora, PA, population less than 5,000.

[Pat R]

$700,000,000 for 10 years.

[carlsonjok]

Mario Mendoza's career batting average is above the Mendoza line.

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Thanks! The claim sounded reasonable and I guess was correct for many years.

Gehrig had to sit out the 1921 football season at Columbia as a suspension for playing some semi-professional baseball in Hartford the preceding summer under an assumed name ("Lou Lewis" I believe). I do think he played in 1922.

If you include Koufax, who attended night classes in Architecture at Columbia during his Rookie season, and actually went to class right after the Dodgers' game 7 when they finally won a World Series, then Columbia can claim 4 HOFers.

[cgjackson222]

Hall of Famer Joe Sewell had an interesting career:

1) He was called up mid-season by Cleveland to replace Ray Chapman after he tragically died after being hit by a Carl Mays pitch.

2) He used only one bat during his entire major league career. It was a 35-inch, 40-ounce Ty Cobb model Louisville Slugger he dubbed "Black Betsy" and kept in condition by seasoning it with chewing tobacco and stroking it with a Coke bottle.

3. He only struck out 114 times in 7,132 at bats including 115 straight games without a strikeout.

[tma4321]

Originally Posted by cgjackson222

University of Michigan has George Sisler, Charlie Gehringer and Barrly Larkin.

USC produced Randy Johnson, and both Don Sutton and Tom Seaver also went there for a year.

Still pretty amazing that Columbia produced 3 HOFers.

Speaking of Lou Gehrig--not everyone knows what a well-rounded athlete he was. He had football scholarship to Columbia and was their pitching Ace. His greatest mound performance came on April 18, 1923, the same day that Yankee Stadium opened, in a game against Williams College. Gehrig struck out 17 batters, setting a school record that stands to this day.

This is a very interesting topic. Eddie Collins graduated from Columbia University and John Ward received a law degree from Columbia. Amazing considering John Ward's parents passed away when he was a teenager and he got his law degree in his late twenties while playing professional baseball. Lou Gehrig left after his sophomore year to play pro baseball. Barry Larkin went back to Michigan to complete his degree in 2010!

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

John Miller hit HRs in his first and last plate appearances. This is made especially bewildering by his .164 career BA and the fact that those were the only two HRs of his brief career.

In a ten season career, Will White won 40 games three times and 30 games twice...yet nobody ever seems to talk about him getting into Cooperstown.