Was this guy looking at WAR 77 years ago?

[AGuinness]

This is interesting (with the caveat that WAR is not an exact stat, and Lee being .1 WAR better than DiMaggio is not hard proof that his season was better or more valuable), and I went over to good ol' Wikipedia to look at Lee's page. And a fun (if true) connection to Williams was revealed:

"On September 17, 1939, Ted Williams hit a home run off Thornton Lee, one of 31 homers he hit in his rookie season. Williams homered off Thornton's son, Don Lee, of the Senators, on September 2, 1960, thus becoming the only player in major league history to hit a home run off a father and son."

No citation for that, so I'm taking it with a grain of salt. Anybody know if this has happened since (or remains the only instance)?

[commishbob]

Originally Posted by AGuinness

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"On September 17, 1939, Ted Williams hit a home run off Thornton Lee, one of 31 homers he hit in his rookie season. Williams homered off Thornton's son, Don Lee, of the Senators, on September 2, 1960, thus becoming the only player in major league history to hit a home run off a father and son."

No citation for that, so I'm taking it with a grain of salt. Anybody know if this has happened since (or remains the only instance)?

Bob Lemke had a blog post on this and noted that the Lees both gave up a dinger to Preston Ward...but noted that the homer off Thorton came in 1948 and then ".... 18-year-old Don Lee was pitching for the Casa Grande (Ariz.) Cotton Kings in the American Baseball Congress amateur tournament in Wichita, he gave up a home run and a double to Ward, who was playing with the U.S. Army's Ft. Leonard Wood team that eventually came in second in the tourney. Don took the loss in the 5-2 game."

http://boblemke.blogspot.com/2011/07...or-homers.html

Sure miss Bob Lemke.

[clydepepper]

NEXT UP?


Anyone want to research this idea:


An All-War-Years War Team:
Populate a nine-man lineup or even a roster with the players leading in WAR at each position for the period 1942 through 1945.



Calling Bill Gregory?


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