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Post by daktari68 on May 24, 2024 18:26:58 GMT -6
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Post by daktari68 on May 25, 2024 16:09:09 GMT -6
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Post by Cool Papa Con on May 25, 2024 19:59:49 GMT -6
Sad story…. Thanks for sharing! |
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Post by daktari68 on May 26, 2024 4:27:48 GMT -6
On May 26, 1926, Jim Bottomley became the only player ever sued for hitting a home run. missourilife.com/may-26-1926On June 24, 1876, the St. Louis Brown Stockings beat the Philadelphia Athletics in St. Louis 8 to 3. The next day, 1131 miles away, Sitting Bull beat Custer 259 to 31. |
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Post by daktari68 on May 27, 2024 5:45:53 GMT -6
In 1884 Heavyweight Boxing Champion John L. Sullivan pitched 5 innings for the St. Louis Browns in an exhibition game. Wild Bill Hickok was asked to umpire a baseball game in Kansas City in 1866. And of course he wore his guns behind home plate. I doubt that there was much arguing over balls and strikes. kchistory.org/blog/strange-goings-exposition-fair-1872-pt-2 |
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Post by daktari68 on May 27, 2024 13:49:53 GMT -6
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Post by daktari68 on May 28, 2024 6:20:48 GMT -6
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Post by daktari68 on May 28, 2024 15:58:50 GMT -6
BASE STEALING Vince Coleman holds the MLB record for the most consecutive stolen bases with 50 from 9-16-88 to 7-26-89. On September 4, 1982, Lonnie Smith tied an NL record with 5 stolen bases in one game against the Giants. The St. Louis Browns hold the record for the most stolen bases by a team with 581 in one season 1887. ( Watching them play must have been like watching jack rabbits.) Check out their stats, they even look like speedsters. www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/1887.shtmlThese prolific base stealers all wore a St. Louis uniform at one time or another. Lou Brock 938 career steals Vince Coleman 752 career steals Arlie Latham 742 career steals Tom Brown 658 career steals Billy Hoy 596 career steals |
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Post by str8shooter on May 28, 2024 16:31:13 GMT -6
Interesting stuff. Thanks. Have you ever gone to Baseball Fever and looked at the forums there?
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Post by daktari68 on May 28, 2024 16:47:24 GMT -6
Interesting stuff. Thanks. Have you ever gone to Baseball Fever and looked at the forums there? No, I never heard of it. I just checked it out, a lot of history on the Cards there. |
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Post by str8shooter on May 28, 2024 19:42:12 GMT -6
Interesting stuff. Thanks. Have you ever gone to Baseball Fever and looked at the forums there? No, I never heard of it. I just checked it out, a lot of history on the Cards there. It actually belongs to Baseball America. There are some fanatics, some really good posters and a few troublemakers. For someone who loves the history of the game, it is a great site. For those interested in coaching, the 101 Coaching Forum is pretty good although a huge argument two years ago has had some of the members leave. They come back every once in a while. |
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Post by daktari68 on May 28, 2024 20:01:11 GMT -6
No, I never heard of it. I just checked it out, a lot of history on the Cards there. It actually belongs to Baseball America. There are some fanatics, some really good posters and a few troublemakers. For someone who loves the history of the game, it is a great site. For those interested in coaching, the 101 Coaching Forum is pretty good although a huge argument two years ago has had some of the members leave. They come back every once in a while. Most of my knowledge of baseball history comes from this huge book someone gave me years ago for Christmas, I had to toss it when my basement flooded but I remembered a lot of stuff from it. Lately I have been researching my memories on the internet and posting them here. I used to stay up all night damaging my peepers reading that book, there were hundreds of pages in it. |
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Post by str8shooter on May 28, 2024 21:50:05 GMT -6
It actually belongs to Baseball America. There are some fanatics, some really good posters and a few troublemakers. For someone who loves the history of the game, it is a great site. For those interested in coaching, the 101 Coaching Forum is pretty good although a huge argument two years ago has had some of the members leave. They come back every once in a while. Most of my knowledge of baseball history comes from this huge book someone gave me years ago for Christmas, I had to toss it when my basement flooded but I remembered a lot of stuff from it. Lately I have been researching my memories on the internet and posting them here. I used to stay up all night damaging my peepers reading that book, there were hundreds of pages in it. I love books like that although I have a lot of them that involve history itself. I have several books on battles. A couple are on historical world battles and others on the Revolutionary and Civil War. |
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Post by daktari68 on May 28, 2024 22:27:06 GMT -6
Most of my knowledge of baseball history comes from this huge book someone gave me years ago for Christmas, I had to toss it when my basement flooded but I remembered a lot of stuff from it. Lately I have been researching my memories on the internet and posting them here. I used to stay up all night damaging my peepers reading that book, there were hundreds of pages in it. I love books like that although I have a lot of them that involve history itself. I have several books on battles. A couple are on historical world battles and others on the Revolutionary and Civil War. I too enjoy reading about history. I had a bunch of Civil War magazines but they met the same fate as my baseball book. I particularly like reading about the American west in the 1800s, specially the outlaws and gunfighters. Missouri played a big part in that field, we were known as the " Outlaw State." The head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency was quoted as saying, " Missouri has produced more train robbers than any state in the Union." |
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Post by daktari68 on May 29, 2024 6:24:02 GMT -6
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