Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Unique baseball feats

As I try to remember the name of the host of Connections without the help of the internet (I think it was James something-or-other), a post in honor of "Neon" Deion Sanders, who was recently elected to the Football Hall of Fame.

1. ...Deion was fast. In addition to football, he played professional baseball. A testament to his speed: in 1992 he hit more triples (14) than doubles (6)...

2. ...thanks to this, modern man is able to easily determine who else in Major League Baseball history has hit at least 14 triples and no more than 6 doubles in a single season. The answer: no one in the 139 years of professional baseball has done this, except for Deion Sanders....

3. ...however, there have been other players who hit a lot more triples than doubles. There is only one instance of a player hitting five times as many triples as doubles in a season. In 1871, John Bass hit ten times (!) as many triples (10) as doubles (1)...

4. ...extreme trivia: John Bass was the first professional baseball player to die in Colorado. The second was Asa Brainard, a former star pitcher who died in Denver of pneumonia two months later....

5. ...Brainard pitched for the Excelsior of Brooklyn on October 14, 1862 against the Unions of Morrisania (from da Bronx). During the game Excelsior teammate Jim Creighton injured himself (a ruptured inguinal hernia) with a mighty home run swing. He died four days later. As far as I know, he is the only person to have ever killed himself in the process of hitting a home run.

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