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In 1930, he led the league in wins and saves (though it would be decades before the save became an official statistic).
Joe Posnanski • The Baseball 100
baseball on valium’, as some would describe it).
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
in 1920, a 25-year-old Hornsby—a lifetime .310/.370/.440 hitter to that point—hit .370/.431/.559, leading the league in all three splits, and he also led the league in hits, doubles, RBIs, and total bases. Over the next five seasons combined—this is so ridiculous—Hornsby would hit .402. Nobody, not even Ty Cobb, hit .400 over five full seasons.
Joe Posnanski • The Baseball 100
a bobby (another nickname, based on the name of Sir Robert Peel, the nineteenth-century Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police)
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
The practical methodologies evolved over many years, and were largely the work of John Hall, a gunsmith from Portland, Maine, and inventor of the “Hall carbine” that became notorious when muckrakers dug into the youthful Pierpont Morgan’s dealings with Civil War procurement authorities.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
In 1909, Wagner was far and away the most famous and beloved baseball player in America. As such, when the American Tobacco Company decided to put together its baseball card set, he was the most important player for the company to secure. It’s unclear how the ATC negotiated with players for photo rights. In most cases, they probably didn’t. A few
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